The creative development of Johann Sebastian Bach : music to delight the spirit  v. 1 ~ v. 2

Richard D.P. Jones

This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Taking into account the vast increase in our knowledge of the composer due to the Bach scholarship of the last sixty years, Richard Jones presents a vivid and in some respects radically new picture of his creative development during the Cothen (1717-23) and Leipzig years (1723-50). The approach is, as far as possible, chronological and analytical, but the author has also tried to make the book readable so that it may be accessible to music lovers and amateur performers as well as to students, scholars, and professional musicians. There are many good biographies of Bach, but this is the first, fully-comprehensive, in-depth study of his music making it indispensable for those who want to study specific pieces or learn how he developed as a composer.

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This book gives an account of the individual works of one of the greatest composers. The first volume of a two-volume study of the music of J. S. Bach covers the earlier part of his composing career, 1695-1717. By studying the music chronologically a coherent picture of the composer's creative development emerges, drawing together all the strands of the individual repertoires (e.g. the cantatas, the organ music, the keyboard music). The volume is divided into two parts, covering the early works and the mature Weimar compositions respectively. Each part deals with four categories of composition in turn: large-scale keyboard works; preludes, fantasias, and fugues; organ chorales; and cantatas. Within each category, the discussion is prefaced by a list of the works to be considered, together with details of their original titles, catalogue numbers, and earliest sources. The study is thus usable as a handbook on Bach's works as well as a connected study of his creative development.As indicated by the subtitle Music to Delight the Spirit,, borrowed from Bach's own title-pages, Richard Jones draws attention to another important aspect of the book: not only is it a study of style and technique but a work of criticism, an analytical evaluation of Bach's music and an appreciation of its extraordinary qualities. It also takes account of the remarkable advances in Bach scholarship that have been made over the last 50 years, including the many studies that have appeared relating to various aspects of Bach's early music, such as the varied influences to which he was subjected and the problematic issues of dating and authenticity that arise. In doing so, it attempts to build up a coherent picture of his development as a creative artist, helping us to understand what distinguishes Bach's mature music from his early works and from the music of his predecessors and contemporaries. Hence we learn why it is that his later works are instantly recognizable as 'Bachian'.

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[目次]

  • PART I: THE CDTHEN AND EARLY LEIPZIG YEARS: 1717-1729
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Well-Tempered Clavier I and Other Keyboard Works
  • 3. The Brandenburg Concertos and Other Instrumental Works
  • 4. Sacred and Secular: the Vocal Works
  • 5. Conclusion
  • PART II: THE MIDDLE LEIPZIG YEARS 1729-39
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Clavierubung II-III and other Harpsichord, Organ, and Lute Works
  • 3. The Harpsichord Concertos and Other Instrumental Works
  • 4. Sacred and Secular: Vocal Works II
  • 5. Conclusion
  • PART III: THE LATE LEIPZIG YEARS 1739-50
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Well-Tempered Clavier II and Other Keyboard/Organ Works
  • 3. The Musical Offering and Other Instrumental Works
  • 4. The B minor Mass and Other Vocal Works
  • 5. Conclusion

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[目次]

  • PART I: FORMATIVE YEARS (1695-C.1709)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Sonata and Other Genres
  • 3. Fugue and Fantasy I
  • 4. The Neumeister Collection and other Organ Chorales
  • 5. The Early Cantatas
  • 6. Conclusion
  • PART II: FIRST MATURITY (C.1709-1717)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Concerto and Other Genres
  • 3. Fugue and Fantasy II
  • 4. The Orgelbuchlein and Other Chorales
  • 5. The Weimar Cantatas
  • 6. Conclusion

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書名 The creative development of Johann Sebastian Bach : music to delight the spirit
著作者等 Jones, Richard Douglas
Jones Richard D. P.
Jones Richard
巻冊次 v. 1
v. 2
出版元 Oxford University Press
刊行年月 2007-2013
ページ数 2 v.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 9780198739265
9780198739272
9780199696284
9780198164401
NCID BA80574296
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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