Bach's Choral Music: A Listener's Guide [With CD (Audio)]

by Gordon Jones

Includes full-length CD from the Bach Collegium Japan. J.S. Bach - A Listener's Guide to His Choral Music introduces the general listener to a genre of music that is mistakenly supposed to be "difficult." A vivid biographical sketch of Bach's life and times provides the necessary background. The book then takes on the question "What is a cantata?" and guides the listener systematically through fugue, recitative, and aria. The author chooses 30 of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574671804
• ISBN13: 9781574671803
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Amadeus
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"