An Introduction To Bach Studies

This volume is a guide to the resources and materials of Bach scholarship, both for the nonspecialist wondering where to begin in the enormous literature on J. S. Bach, and for the Bach specialist looking for a convenient and up-to-date survey of the field. It describes the tools of Bach research and how to use them, and suggests how to get started in Bach research by describing the principal areas of research and citing the essential literature on each piece and topic. The authors emphasize the issues that have engaged Bach scholars for generations, focusing on particularly important writings on recent literature on overviews, collections of essays and handbooks and on writings in English. Subjects covered include bibliographic tools of Bach research and sources of literature Bach\u27s family Bach biographies places Bach lived and worked Bach\u27s teaching the liturgy Bach source studies and the transmission of his music repertory and editions genres and individual vocal and instrumental works performance practice the reception and analysis of Bach\u27s music and many others. The book also offers explanations of important and potentially confusing topics in Bach research, such as the organization of the annual cantata cycles, pitch standards, the history of the Berlin libraries, the structure of the critical commentary volumes in the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, and so on. This book opens up the rich world of Bach scholarship to students, teachers, performers, and listener

Bach And God

Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach\u27s vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the librettos. Yet he also shows how Bach\u27s pitches, rhythms, and tone colors can make contributions to a work\u27s plausible meanings that go beyond setting texts in an aesthetically satisfying manner. In some of Bach\u27s vocal repertory, the music puts a spin on the words in a way that turns out to be explainable as orthodox Lutheran in its orientation. In a few of Bach\u27s vocal works, his otherwise puzzlingly fierce musical settings serve to underscore now unrecognized or unacknowledged verbal polemics, most unsettlingly so in the case of his church cantatas that express contempt for Jews and Judaism. Finally, even Bach\u27s secular instrumental music, particularly the late collections of abstract learned counterpoint, can powerfully project certain elements of traditional Lutheran theology. Bach\u27s music is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn

Benjamin H. Munson, Guitar

Suite in D / Michael Praetorius, transcribed by Patrick Russ; 1st Cello Suite, BWV 1007 / J.S. Bach; Aria detta la Frescobalda / Girolamo Frescobaldi; La Catedral / Agustin Barrios; Leyenda (Asturias) / Isaac Albeniz, arranged by Sophocles Papas; Ricercare XIX; Fantasia VI / Francesco da Milan

A Brook Runs through It: Fresh Water from the Bach for Today\u27s Thirsty Church

(Excerpt) Not Bach [brook], but Meer [sea] should be his name, Beethoven once said of Johann Sebastian Bach. 1 In this anniversary year marking the two-hundred and fiftieth year of his death on July 28, Bach is receiving extraordinary attention, which includes a significant biography by Christoph Wolff,2 yet another series of recordings of all the cantatas (that makes five3), and soul-searching among various scholars in an attempt to grasp the essence of this person\u27s life and work

CLASS RECITAL featuring viola students of James Dunham and Karen Ritscher Sunday, January 25, 2004 8:00 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall

Program: Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008 / Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) -- Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 1010 / Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) -- Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 1010 / Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) -- Sonata for Piano and Viola / Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

FACULTY RECITAL SERGIU LUCA, violin LYNN HARRELL, cello Friday, February 20, 2004 8:00 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall

Program: Suite No. 6 in D Major for Solo Violoncello, BWV 1012 / Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) -- Partita in D Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004 / Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) -- Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 / Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967)

Benjamin H. Munson, Classical Guitar

Ricercare XIX; Fantasia VI / Francesco da Milano; Suite in D / Michael Praetorius; transcribed by Patrick Russ; Aria con Variazioni Detta La Frescobalda / Girolamo Frescobaldi; Cello Suite No. 1, BWV 1007 / Johann Sebastian Bach; Prelude No. 1 / Heitor Villa-Lobos; Capricho Arabe (Serenata) / Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea; Asturias Leyenda / Isaac Albeniz; arranged by Sophocles Papa

Convocation

The origins of phenotypic variation within mimetic Heliconius butterflies have long fascinated biologists and naturalists. However, the evolutionary processes that have generated this extraordinary diversity remain puzzling. Here we examine intraspecific variation across Heliconius cydno diversification and compare this variation to that within the closely related H. melpomene and H. timareta radiations. Our data, which consist of both mtDNA and genome scan from nearly 2250 AFLP loci, reveal a complex history of differentiation and admixture at different geographic scales. Both mtDNA and AFLP phylogenies suggest that H. timareta and H. cydno are probably geographic extremes of the same radiation that likely diverged from H. melpomene during the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary. MtDNA suggest that this radiation originated in Central America or the Northwestern region of South America, with a subsequent colonization of the eastern and western slopes of the Andes. Our genome-scan data indicate significant admixture among sympatric H. cydno/H.timareta and H. melpomene populations across the extensive geographic ranges of the two radiations. Within H. cydno, both mtDNA and AFLP data indicate significant population structure at local scales, with strong genetic differences even among adjacent H. cydno color pattern races. These genetic patterns highlight the importance of past geoclimatic events, intraspecific gene flow, and local population differentiation in the origin and establishment of new adaptive forms

CLARA JUNG-YANG SHIN Piano DOCTORAL RECITAL Saturday, September 27, 2003 5:30 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall

Recording is incomplete.Program: Prelude and Fugue in F Minor, BWV881 / Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) -- Suite from the Violin Partita in E Major by J. S. Bach / Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) -- Sonata in C Major, K. 330 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) -- L' Isle joyeuse / Claude Debussy (1862-1918) -- Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 82 / Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953).This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Doctor of Musical Arts degree

A Celebration of the Baroque, December 9, 1992

This is the concert program of the A Celebration of the Baroque performance on >Wednesday, December 9, 1992 at 4:15 p.m., at the Marshall Room, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Monologo del tempo ("Il rappresentazione di anima e di corpo") by Emilio de Cavalieri, Lovely Abina by Henry Purcell, Rosa quae moritur...Alleluia by Antonio Vivaldi, Avezzati, mio core by Francesco Maria Zanetti, An Chloe by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amara, servitù ("Muzio Scevola") by Francesco Cavalli, Twas within a furlong of Edinborough Town by H. Purcell, Cara, nel dirti addìo by Benedetto Marcello, Oh delle mie speranze by F. Cavalli, Zu Tanze, zu Sprunge by Johann Sebastian Bach, O Come, O Come my Dearest by Thomas Arne, Air de Vénus by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Aure amiche by Vincenzo Righini, The Wakeful Nightingale by John Weldon, If Music Be the Food of Love by H. Purcell, Evening Hymn by H. Purcell, The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms by T. Arne, Viglio provar---Chi in amore by J. S. Bach, Go, Gentle Gales by T. Arne, and Meine Seele sei vergnügt by J. S. Bach. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund