Bach: Mass in B Minor
- Author: Butt, John
- Editor: Rushton, Julian
outstanding. Into a mere 100 lucid pages, this most stimulating of our younger Bach scholar-performers has managed to pack accounts of the work's background, composition and reception history... — More…
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Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. The musical genre of the mass ordinary
- 2. Genesis and purpose
- 3. Reception history
- 4. Text and music: the process of adaptation and composition
- 5. Ritornello forms
- 6. The influence of the dance
- 7. Counterpoint
- 8. Figurae and the motivic texture
- 9. Patterns and proportions: large-scale structuring and continuity in the Mass in B Minor
- Afterword.