Introduction
1: The Hermeneutic Matrix
2: The Lutheran "Metaphysical" Tradition in Music and Music
Theory
3: Cantata 21, "Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis"
4: Modal Questions
5: Bach's Reflection on the Past: Moral Chorales in Cantata
Designs
6: Two Chorale Cantatas
7: Cantata 77: The Theological Background
8: "Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben": An Analysis of Cantata
77
9: Epilogue: Cantata 60, "O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
2001 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award
Eric Chafe is the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Musicology at Brandeis University. His previous books include Monteverdi's Tonal Language (1992), which won both the American Musicological Society's Kinkeldey Award and the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, and Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach (1991).
"...Chafe has worked to push Bach studies beyond formalist analysis
and to demonstrate how the composer represented Lutheran theology
by means of musical language and structures...Perhap's Chafe most
interesting contribution is the application of his own pioneering
studies of modality in Monteverdi to Bach's
compositions."--Theological Studies
"Chafe is a major Bach scholar, and this book will become a classic
in the literature."--Choice
"Informed examination of the Bach cantatas still yields new
information and interpretations. Eric Chafe's Analyzing Bach
Cantatas is a good example...of most interest to music scholars,
and particularly to Bach specialists. However, it is good for the
rest of us to be reminded occasionally that there is-or should
be-more to church music than just entertaining sounds, for church
music is itself a theological statement."--Southwestern Journal
of
Theology
"....Analyzing Bach Cantatas is recommended for anyone who has a
serious interest in gaining a deeper understanding of Bach's
cantatas and one of the musical-allegorical means Bach may have
employed to embody the meaning of the text."--Journal of American
Musicological Society
"[A]n extremely ambitious work...consistently clear and
straightforwardChafe offers powerful interpretive tools to his
readers."--Current Musicology
"The chief strengths of Analyzing Bach's Cantatas lie in its
ability to enhance our sensitivity to Bach's use of tonality and in
Chafe's numerous astute and eloquently expressed insights into
aspects of Bach's sacred vocal works."--Journal of American
Musicological Society
"The book's observations are firmly grounded in the realm of the
heard, or the felt. The results achieve the aim of all good
analysis: a direct impact on the reader's musical encounter.
Listeners, who now mainly experience Bach's cantatas in the context
of the concert hall rather than the church, will find their hearing
altered by their new awareness of the network of sacred meaning
that Chafe brings to light."--The Eighteenth Century Current
Bibliography
"Analyzing Bach Cantatas has much to offer. ...an important
addition to Bach studies. ... Those who patiently follow his
analyses and interpretations will come away with a deeper
understanding of this incomparable repertory."--Notes
"[A] truly remarkable achievement, at once expanding the depth of
his inquiry and making his theories accessible to readers with
relatively little knowledge of music theory...[C]hafe's approach
bring attention to rich relationships within the music, and allows
large works to make coherent statements in new ways...I know of no
work that offers a more powerful or comprehensive picture of how
the basic materials of music can serve the expression of
faith."--Books & Culture
"...Chafe has worked to push Bach studies beyond formalist analysis
and to demonstrate how the composer represented Lutheran theology
by means of musical language and structures...Perhap's Chafe most
interesting contribution is the application of his own pioneering
studies of modality in Monteverdi to Bach's
compositions."--Theological Studies
"Chafe is a major Bach scholar, and this book will become a classic
in the literature."--Choice
"Informed examination of the Bach cantatas still yields new
information and interpretations. Eric Chafe's Analyzing Bach
Cantatas is a good example...of most interest to music scholars,
and particularly to Bach specialists. However, it is good for the
rest of us to be reminded occasionally that there is -or should
be-more to church music than just entertaining sounds, for church
music is itself a theological statement."--Southwestern Journal
of
Theology
"....Analyzing Bach Cantatas is recommended for anyone who has a
serious interest in gaining a deeper understanding of Bach's
cantatas and one of the musical-allegorical means Bach may have
employed to embody the meaning of the text."--Journal of American
Musicological Society
"[A]n extremely ambitious work...consistently clear and
straightforwardChafe offers powerful interpretive tools to his
readers."--Current Musicology
"The chief strengths of Analyzing Bach's Cantatas lie in its
ability to enhance our sensitivity to Bach's use of tonality and in
Chafe's numerous astute and eloquently expressed insights into
aspects of Bach's sacred vocal works."--Journal of American
Musicological Society
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