This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Taking into account the vast increase in our knowledge of the composer due to the Bach scholarship of the last sixty years, Richard Jones presents a vivid and in some respects radically new picture of his creative development during the Cöthen (1717-23) and Leipzig years (1723-50). The approach is, as far as possible, chronological and analytical, but the author has also tried to make the book readable so that it may be accessible to music lovers and amateur performers as well as to students, scholars, and professional musicians. There are many good biographies of Bach, but this is the first, fully-comprehensive, in-depth study of his music making it indispensable for those who want to study specific pieces or learn how he developed as a composer.
By:
Richard D. P. Jones (Music writer and editor),
Richard D. P. Jones
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 160mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 656g
ISBN: 9780198739272
ISBN 10: 0198739273
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 16 July 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part I: The Cðthen and Early Leipzig Years: 1717-1729 1: Introduction 2: The Well-Tempered Clavier I and Other Keyboard Works 3: The Brandenburg Concertos and Other Instrumental Works 4: Sacred and Secular: the Vocal Works 5: Conclusion Part II: The Middle Leipzig Years 1729-39 1: Introduction 2: Clavierübung II-III and other Harpsichord, Organ, and Lute Works 3: The Harpsichord Concertos and Other Instrumental Works 4: Sacred and Secular: Vocal Works II 5: Conclusion Part III: The Late Leipzig Years 1739-50 1: Introduction 2: The Well-Tempered Clavier II and Other Keyboard/Organ Works 3: The Musical Offering and Other Instrumental Works 4: The B minor Mass and Other Vocal Works 5: Conclusion Part I: The Cðthen and Early Leipzig Years: 1717-1729 1: Introduction 2: The Well-Tempered Clavier I and Other Keyboard Works 3: The Brandenburg Concertos and Other Instrumental Works 4: Sacred and Secular: the Vocal Works 5: Conclusion Part II: The Middle Leipzig Years 1729-39 1: Introduction 2: Clavierübung II-III and other Harpsichord, Organ, and Lute Works 3: The Harpsichord Concertos and Other Instrumental Works 4: Sacred and Secular: Vocal Works II 5: Conclusion Part III: The Late Leipzig Years 1739-50 1: Introduction 2: The Well-Tempered Clavier II and Other Keyboard/Organ Works 3: The Musical Offering and Other Instrumental Works 4: The B minor Mass and Other Vocal Works 5: Conclusion
Richard Jones is a music writer and Editor
Reviews for The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume II: 1717-1750: Music to Delight the Spirit
This book qualifies immediately as a towering work of outstanding musical analysis...Jones's new volume continues also to be a valuable digest of the thoughts of other scholars; spanning the Cothen years as well as Leipzig, it is a masterpiece of compression and precision, yet finds time to ventilate the most interesting aspects of Bach Scholarship. Bach Notes Journal
