Universal Bach: Lectures Celebrating the Tercentenary of Bach's Birthday

By Michael Korn

This volume is a fitting commemorative of the Basically Bach Festival's celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Festival was organized by a small committee in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia in 1976. Contents: Musical & Numerical Symbolism in the Large Choral Works: Bach's Secret Code, by Michael Korn; The Articulation of Genre in Bach's Instrumental Music, by Laurence Dreyfus; Bach the Cantor, the Capellmeister, & the Musical Scholar: Aspects of the "B-Minor Mass," by Christoph Wolff; On Bach's Universality, by Robert L. Marshall; & Bach as Biblical Interpreter, by Richard L. Jeske. Illustrations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871694360
• ISBN13: 9780871694362
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"