Bach Perspectives, Volume 7
About the Book
The creativity of J. S. Bach is so overwhelming that his compositions in some genres can risk eclipsing his work in others; his glorious choral works, profound organ compositions, and exquisite solo compositions for violin and cello have historically attracted the most attention. Bach Perspectives, Volume 7 aims to restore Bach's concertos to their rightful place of honor.The volume opens with Gregory Butler focusing on Bach's Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in E Major BWV 1053 as a pastiche created by a process of assemblage of three earlier, heterogeneous movements. Pieter Dirksen, on the basis of his study of the source history of the Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in F Minor BWV 1056, concludes that it represents a transcription of an earlier violin concerto in G Minor. David Schulenberg investigates the generic ambiguity of the concerto at the beginning of the eighteenth century and how it gradually diverges from the sonata as a distinct genre. Completing the volume is Christoph Wolff's general examination of the "Siciliano" as a slow movement in Bach's concertos and its implications for the source history of his Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in E Major BWV 1053.
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About the Author
Gregory Butler is a professor emeritus of musicology at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Bach's Clavier-Übung III: The Making of a Print.Also by this author
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