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Bach in the World offers a new exploration of Bach's music as it functioned within rituals and as a place where socio-political norms were perpetuated and sometimes even challenged.
Once again Markus Rathey has produced a seldom seen-and marvelously successful-integration of cultural and aesthetic writing on Bach. No serious Bachian should be without this erudite yet broadly accessible book on an undervalued segment of the repertory.
This fascinating study treats a subset of Bach's cantatas in panoramic fashion. In a laudably nuanced manner, Markus Rathey argues that the 'sacred' and 'secular' aspects of Bach's work were inextricably linked, and he illustrates with astonishing erudition the vital connections between this repertoire and the theology, visual culture, politics, and other aspects of eighteenth-century German society.
Rathey brings a valuable interdisciplinary perspective to this illuminating book. Grounded in expertise that extends beyond J.S. Bach's works to encompass Baroque theology and a range of theoretical approaches, Rathey elucidates numerous ways in which Bach's cantatas were embedded in and shaped Baroque culture and political life.
Rathey (Yale) has published extensively on the music of J. S. Bach... Rathey's works include Bach's Major Vocal Works: Music, Drama, Liturgy and Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio: Music, Theology, Culture.
Markus Rathey is Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History at Yale University. His research focuses on music in the second half of the 17th century, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the Bach family. His books include a study of Bach's Christmas Oratorio and an introduction to Bach's major vocal works. He is past-president of the American Bach Society and associate editor of the Yale Journal of Music and Religion.
Once again Markus Rathey has produced a seldom seen-and marvelously successful-integration of cultural and aesthetic writing on Bach. No serious Bachian should be without this erudite yet broadly accessible book on an undervalued segment of the repertory.
This fascinating study treats a subset of Bach's cantatas in panoramic fashion. In a laudably nuanced manner, Markus Rathey argues that the 'sacred' and 'secular' aspects of Bach's work were inextricably linked, and he illustrates with astonishing erudition the vital connections between this repertoire and the theology, visual culture, politics, and other aspects of eighteenth-century German society.
Rathey brings a valuable interdisciplinary perspective to this illuminating book. Grounded in expertise that extends beyond J.S. Bach's works to encompass Baroque theology and a range of theoretical approaches, Rathey elucidates numerous ways in which Bach's cantatas were embedded in and shaped Baroque culture and political life.
Rathey (Yale) has published extensively on the music of J. S. Bach... Rathey's works include Bach's Major Vocal Works: Music, Drama, Liturgy and Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio: Music, Theology, Culture.
Markus Rathey is Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History at Yale University. His research focuses on music in the second half of the 17th century, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the Bach family. His books include a study of Bach's Christmas Oratorio and an introduction to Bach's major vocal works. He is past-president of the American Bach Society and associate editor of the Yale Journal of Music and Religion.