{"product_id":"bach-god-hardcover","title":"Bach \u0026 God - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Marissen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBach \u0026amp; God\u003c\/em\u003e explores the religious character of Bach's 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's pitches, rhythms, and tone colors can make contributions to a work's plausible meanings that go beyond setting texts in an aesthetically satisfying manner. In some of Bach's 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's 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's secular instrumental music, particularly the late collections of \"abstract\" learned counterpoint, can powerfully project\u003cbr\u003ecertain elements of traditional Lutheran theology. Bach's music is inexhaustible, and \u003cem\u003eBach \u0026amp; God \u003c\/em\u003esuggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos \u003c\/em\u003e(Princeton, 1995), \u003cem\u003e Lutheranism, anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 1998), \u003cem\u003e An Introduction to Bach Studies\u003c\/em\u003e (co-author Daniel Melamed; Oxford, 1998), \u003cem\u003eBach's Oratorios\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 2008), \u003cem\u003e Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah\u003c\/em\u003e (Yale, 2014), and essays in\u003cem\u003e Lutheran Quarterly, Harvard Theological Review, The Huffington Post, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 282\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 18, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724657037375,"sku":"9780190606954","price":158.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/cad0f9d5413d891b11c85c8caaec52e7.webp?v=1765103446","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/bach-god-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}