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  • Bach Perspectives, Volume 12

    Bach and the Counterpoint of Religion

    Series series Bach Perspectives
    Johann Sebastian Bach was a Lutheran and much of his music was for Lutheran liturgical worship. As these insightful essays in the twelfth volume of Bach Perspectives demonstrate, he was also influenced by--and in turn influenced--different expressions of religious belief. The vocal music, especially the Christmas Oratorio, owes much to medieval Catholic mysticism, and the evolution of the B minor ... Read more

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  • Foretastes of Heaven in Lutheran Church Music Tradition

    Johann Mattheson and Christoph Raupach on Music in Time and Eternity

    Edited by Joyce L. Irwin ...
    Series series Contextual Bach Studies
    In the two centuries after Martin Luther’s affirmation that music stood second only to theology, Lutheran theologians and musicians formulated a theological defense of music that validated this exalted status. Against Calvinist rivals and Pietist critics, the orthodox Lutheran position further claimed that both instrumental and vocal music were commanded by God. Joyce Irwin’s earlier work, Neither ... Read more

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  • Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century

    Church, Stage, and Concert Hall

    Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall explores interconnections of the sacred and the secular in music and aesthetic debates of the long nineteenth century. The essays in this volume view the category of the sacred not as a monolithic attribute that applies only to music written for and performed in a religious ritual. Rather, the ... Read more

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