Bach: Mass in B Minor (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
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Review
'... outstanding. Into a mere 100 lucid pages, this most stimulating of our younger Bach scholar-performers has managed to pack accounts of the work's background, composition and reception history ... this little book serves to illuminate not only the Mass itself, but the entire sweep of current thinking about Bach.' Bayan Northcott, BBC Music Magazine
' ... this little book serves to illuminate not only the Mass itself, but the entire sweep of current thinking about Bach.' Bayan Northcott, BBC Music Magazine
'John Butt's handbook (116 pp inc. Index) on the Mass in B minor is an absolute MUST for anyone who wants to know about this remarkable piece in every particular.' London Bach Society
Book Description
The Mass in B Minor is arguably Bach's greatest single work. This short guide considers the work from many angles, offering the reader basic information in a concise and accessible form. John Butt gives an absorbing account of the work's genesis, its historical context, and its reception by later generations. One chapter considers the work movement by movement, providing the text in both Latin and English, and the final group of chapters on the music itself suggests some new approaches to the work--its forms, style and overall structure. This is an informative and lucid guide, providing an up-to-date summary of existing research and opinions together with some new and challenging insights.
Bach: Mass in B Minor (Cambridge Music Handbooks),John Butt,Julian Rushton,Cambridge University Press,0521387167,1685-1750,1685-1750.,B minor,BWV 232,,Bach, Johann Sebastian,,Christianity - Ritual & Practice,General,Instruction & Study - Composition,Masses,,Music,Performing Arts,Reference,Bach - Johann Sebastian - 1685-1750,Composers & musicians,Music / General
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