LEADER 03985cam 2200457 i 4500001 on1005741904 003 OCoLC 005 20200116041449.0 008 171002t20182018nyua b 001 0 eng 010 2017046684 019 1019747280 020 9780190881054 |qhardcover ; |qalkaline paper 020 0190881054 |qhardcover ; |qalkaline paper 020 |z9780190881078 |qelectronic publication 035 (Sirsi) o1005741904 035 (OCoLC)1005741904 |z(OCoLC)1019747280 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCF |dOCLCO |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dYDX |dOCLCO |dRES |dTJC |dWTU |dNYP |dCHVBK |dOCLCO |dOCLCA |dICW |dOCLCA |dCNPDG |dERE |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 049 EREM 050 04 ML410.B13 |bM32 2018 082 00 782.32/32 |223 100 1 Melamed, Daniel R., |eauthor. |=^A370353 245 10 Listening to Bach : |bthe Mass in B minor and the Christmas oratorio / |cDaniel R. Melamed. 264 1 New York, NY : |bOxford University Press, |c[2018] 264 4 |c©2018 300 xx, 149 pages ; |c22 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 |gPart I. |tThe Mass in B Minor BWV 232. |tPerforming the Mass in B Minor in an age of choices ; |tListening to parody in the Mass in B Minor ; |tThe musical topic of the Mass in B Minor -- |gPart II. |tThe Christmas Oratorio BWV 248. |tParody and its consequences in the Christmas Oratorio ; |tListening to the Christmas Oratorio with a calendar ; |tThe Christmas Oratorio in the shadow of Bach's passions -- |tHow to listen to Bach. 520 Of all the things we can know about J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio, the most profound come from things we can hear. This book explores musical style as it was understood in the early eighteenth century. It encourages ways of listening that take eighteenth-century musical sensibilities into account and that recognize our place as inheritors of a long tradition of performance and interpretation. The author shows how to recognize old and new styles in sacred music of Bach's time, and how movements in these styles are constructed. This opens the possibility of listening to the Mass in B Minor as Bach's demonstration of the possibilities of contrasting, combining, and reconciling old and new styles. It also shows how to listen for elements that would have been heard as most significant in the early eighteenth century, including markers of sleep arias, love duets, secular choral arias, and other movement types. This offers a musical starting point for listening for the ways Bach put these types to use in the Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio. The book also offers ways to listen to and think about works created by parody, the re-use of music for new words and a new purpose, like almost all of the Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio. And it shows that modern performances of these works are stamped with audible consequences of our place in the twenty-first century. The ideological choices we make in performing the Mass and Oratorio, part of the legacy of their performance and interpretation, affect the way the work is understood and heard today. All these topics are illustrated with copious audio examples on a companion Web site, offering new ways of listening to some of Bach's greatest music. 600 10 Bach, Johann Sebastian, |d1685-1750. |tMasses, |nBWV 232, |rB minor. |=^A496897 600 10 Bach, Johann Sebastian, |d1685-1750. |tWeihnachts-Oratorium. |=^A617267 650 0 Vocal music |y18th century |xHistory and criticism. |=^A31547 856 42 |zAudio examples |uhttp://www.oup.com/us/listeningtobach 949 ML410.B13 M32 2018 |wLC |hJMUSIC53 |i30372017167658 |ojjab 994 C0 |bERE 596 3 998 5221473