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• Title:Listening to Bach and Handel : a comparative critique / Joseph P. Swain.
  
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• Author/Creator:Swain, Joseph Peter, author.
  
• Published/Created:Hillsdale, NY : Pendragon Press, [2018]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ML195 .S83 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750--Criticism and interpretation.
  Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759--Criticism and interpretation.
  Music--17th century--History and criticism.
  
• Description:x, 583 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Monographs in musicology ; no. 18.
  
• Summary:Listening to Bach and Handel is a work of traditional music criticism. It asks why these two German composers, born less than one month and 125 kilometers apart -- cultural twins -- could compose so differently from each other as well as their colleagues and yet both achieve universal acclaim the greatest exponents of the Baroque. Finding even partial answers to this question naturally deepens readers' knowledge and appreciation of their art, and thereby amplifies the experience of listening to it. I wrote the book especially for those who love the music of Bach and Handel of course, but because their work underlies in so many ways all the music that came after them, I wrote it for all lovers of music in the Western tradition. --Joseph P. Swain, from the Preface JOSEPH P. SWAIN is Associate Professor of Music, Colgate University.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781576473139 (alk. paper)
  1576473139
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction
  ch. 1 Marvelous Synchronicity
  ch. 2 Recovering the Critical Ear
  pt. II Baroque Musical Language
  ch. 3 Phonology, Syntax, and Semantics
  ch. 4 Gifts of the Seicento: the Aesthetic of Music Drama
  ch. 5 Gifts of the Seicento: Instrumental Drama
  pt. III Bach, Handel, and Six Essential Concepts
  ch. 6 Cantus Firmus
  ch. 7 Dance
  ch. 8 Ostinato
  ch. 9 Cantilena
  ch. 10 Fugue
  ch. 11 Ritornello
  pt. IV Music and Drama
  ch. 12 Opera Seria
  ch. 13 Passion
  ch. 14 English Oratorio
  ch. 15 Solo Sonata and Solo Concerto
  pt. V Conclusion
  ch. 16 Bach and Handel: Synchronicity and Freedom.