Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and
instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist
Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from
careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the librettos. Yet he
also shows how Bach's pitches, rhythms, and tone colors can make
contributions to a work's plausible meanings that go beyond setting
texts in an aesthetically satisfying manner. In some of Bach's
vocal repertory, the music puts a "spin " on the words in a way
that turns out to be explainable as orthodox Lutheran in its
orientation. In a few of Bach's vocal works, his otherwise
puzzlingly fierce musical settings serve to underscore now
unrecognized or unacknowledged verbal polemics, most unsettlingly
so in the case of his church cantatas that express contempt for
Jews and Judaism. Finally, even Bach's secular instrumental music,
particularly the late collections of "abstract " learned
counterpoint, can powerfully project certain elements of
traditional Lutheran theology. Bach's music is inexhaustible, and
Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there
is always more to discover and learn.
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