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Is Religious Faith Incompatible With Academic Life?, Michael Marissen
Is Religious Faith Incompatible With Academic Life?, Michael Marissen
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An Introduction To Bach Studies, D. R. Melamed, Michael Marissen
An Introduction To Bach Studies, D. R. Melamed, Michael Marissen
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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 …
Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, And Bach's St. John Passion: With An Annotated Literal Translation Of The Libretto, J. S. Bach, Michael Marissen
Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, And Bach's St. John Passion: With An Annotated Literal Translation Of The Libretto, J. S. Bach, Michael Marissen
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Bach's St. John Passion is surely one of the monuments of Western music, yet performances have become inevitably controversial. In large part, this is the result of the combination of powerful, highly emotional music coupled with a text that includes passages from a gospel marked by vehement anti-Judaic sentiments. What did this masterpiece mean in Bach's day, and what does it mean today? Although the bibliographies on Bach and on Judaism have grown enormously since World War II, there has been very little work on the relationships between these two areas. This is hardly surprising writers focusing on issues of …