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- جهت استعلام قیمت، خرید و مشاهده نمونه صفحه محصول، لطفاً از طریق پشتیبانی فروشگاه در واتساپ و تلگرام اقدام فرمایید.
Independent of his international renown as a humanitarian, Albert
Schweitzer is well known as a great musicologist; a reputation that
rests largely upon this book. Schweitzer's J. S. Bach is one of the
great full-length studies of the composer, his life, and his work. Its
influence on the subsequent performance of Bach's music was enormous,
and there is scarcely a later work on Bach which does not acknowledge a
deep debt to Schweitzer's. Grove's Dictionary says of the book,
"Schweitzer has probably been more quoted than any authority since
Spitta."
The first volume contains a virtual history of Protestant
church music, examining the role of music in the early Protestant
services of many European countries. Frequent allusions to the parallel
development of art and poetry, to the leading philosophic and religious
concepts of the time, and to events of contemporary history supplement
and enrich the text. Narrowing the study to Germany, Schweitzer traces
to their roots the forms used by Bach (with particular emphasis on the
German chorale and the forms built around it), and assess the
contributions of Schütz, Sheidt, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, and others of
Bach's predecessors. The volume includes a full account of Bach's life,
and discusses his works for organ, clavier, strings, and orchestra.
Suggestions for performance include sections on bowing, on playing
chords and double stops, and on the practice of ornamentation in Bach's
time.
Volume Two is concerned with Bach's choral music — the
chorales, cantatas, the Magnificat, the St. Matthew and St. John
Passions, the motets, songs, oratorios, and masses. The illuminating
analysis of these works, illustrated by hundreds of musical examples, is
dominated by Schweitzer's highly original theories regarding Bach's
pictorial representation of the text in the music, and the expressive
motives Schweitzer has found and identified throughout Bach's
compositions. A long concluding chapter makes recommendations for
performance on tempo, phrasing, accentuation, dynamics, and on the size
and arrangement of the orchestra and choir.
Schweitzer's J. S. Bach
is among the definitive reference works on Bach and is high on the list
of required reading for music students. Yet it is not a difficult or
formidable work. It offers a stimulating, well-written narrative, with
much in it to interest the music lover as well as the scholar.
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