Bach's dialogue with modernity : perspectives on the passions / John Butt.

Author/Creator:

Butt, John.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Format/Description:

Book
x, 317 p. : ill., music ; 26 cm.

Subjects:

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Matthäuspassion.
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Johannespassion.
Oratorio.

Contents:

Bach's passions and the construction of early modern subjectivities
Bach's passions and the textures of time
The hermeneutic perspective : negotiating the poles of faith and suspicion
The voices we hear and the construction of narrative authority
Between rhetoric and dialectic : Bach's inventive stance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521883566 (hardback)
0521883563 (hardback)

OCLC:

432978473

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