Michael Marissen (Professor of Music, Emeritus, Professor of Music,

Gebundenes Buch

Bach & God

Beschreibung

Bach & God explores the religious character of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging insights from detailed investigations of both words and music. Bach is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn.

Autor

Michael Marissen is Daniel Underhill Professor Emeritus of Music at Swarthmore College, where he taught from 1989 to 2014. He has also been a visiting professor on the graduate faculties at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos (Princeton, 1995), Lutheranism, anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion (Oxford, 1998), An Introduction to Bach Studies (co-author Daniel Melamed; Oxford, 1998), Bach's Oratorios (Oxford, 2008), Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah (Yale, 2014), and essays in Lutheran Quarterly, Harvard Theological Review, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780190606954
• ISBN-10: 0190606959
• Artikelnr.: 45539219