Bach Studies 2 [Paperback]

This 1995 volume presents twelve essays by internationally distinguished Bach scholars, covering a broad range of issues in this field.This volume brings together essays on J. S. Bach and members of his family by a distinguished group of scholars. The essays address Bach's compositions, his knowledge of the musical past, his study of contemporaries, and the cultivation of his own music by later generations. The studies draw on source-critical scholarship, musical analysis, religious and social context, performance practice, and reception history SH a broad range of techniques and issues in modern Bach scholarship.This volume brings together essays on J. S. Bach and members of his family by a distinguished group of scholars. The essays address Bach's compositions, his knowledge of the musical past, his study of contemporaries, and the cultivation of his own music by later generations. The studies draw on source-critical scholarship, musical analysis, religious and social context, performance practice, and reception history SH a broad range of techniques and issues in modern Bach scholarship.This volume brings together essays on J. S. Bach and members of his family by a distinguished group of scholars. The essays address Bach's compositions, his knowledge of the musical past, his study of contemporaries, and the cultivation of his own music by later generations. The studies draw on source-critical scholarship, musical analysis, religious and social context, performance practice, and reception history--a broad range of techniques and issues in modern Bach scholarship.List of figures; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. An early version of the first movement of the Italian Concerto BWV 971 from the Scholz Collection? Kirsten Bei?wenger; 2. J. S. Bach's reception of Tomaso Albinoni's mature concertos Gregory G. Butler; 3. J. S. Bach and G. F. Kauffmann: reflections on Bach's later style John Butt; 4. The variation principle in J. S. Bach's Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582 YlC9