Universal Bach: Lectures Celebrating the Tercentenary of Bach's Birthday (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871694362)

This volume is a fitting commemorative of the Basically Bach Festival's celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Festival was organized by a small committee in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia in 1976. Contents: Musical & Numerical Symbolism in the Large Choral Works: Bach's Secret Code, by Michael Korn; The Articulation of Genre in Bach's Instrumental Music, by Laurence Dreyfus; Bach the Cantor, the Capellmeister, & the Musical Scholar: Aspects of the "B-Minor Mass," by Christoph Wolff; On Bach's Universality, by Robert L. Marshall; & Bach as Biblical Interpreter, by Richard L. Jeske. Illustrations.

Author: Martin A. Heckscher
ISBN-10: 0871694360
ISBN-13: 9780871694362
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1986
Pages: 94
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.31d