Rethinking BachPub Date : 2021-11-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190943899.003.0014
Michael Marissen
{"title":"Bach against Modernity","authors":"Michael Marissen","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190943899.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190943899.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"By key standards of what in the eighteenth century and later was considered to be forward-looking and modern—namely to exalt reason (above revelation, whatever the flaws of reason) as arbiter of truth, to exalt human autonomy and achievement, to exalt religious tolerance, to exalt cosmopolitanism, and to exalt social and political progressiveness—Bach and his music reflected and forcefully promoted a premodern world and life view. While we are arguably free to make use of Bach and his music in whatever historically informed or uninformed ways we find fitting, we ought also to be on the ethical alert for a kind of cultural narcissism in which we end up miscasting Bach in our own ideological image and proclaiming the authenticity of that image, and hence its prestige value, in support of our own agendas.","PeriodicalId":355356,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Bach","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123844734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rethinking BachPub Date : 2021-11-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190943899.003.0013
J. Rifkin
{"title":"Rethinking Editions","authors":"J. Rifkin","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190943899.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190943899.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"The monument culture of the nineteenth century has left a lasting impact on our understanding of J. S. Bach—an impact that extended even to editions of his music. The Mass in B Minor offers a paradigmatic example in the intersecting ways that historians and editors have viewed its evolution and its identity. Every edition until recently has proceeded from an understanding of the Mass as an integral, fully realized creation, produced over many years but melded by Bach’s genius into a single coherent whole. A more careful and unbiased look, however, reveals something more complex and contingent—a shifting congery of texts that presents challenges not only to the individual editor but to our very notions of what a critical edition should do.","PeriodicalId":355356,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Bach","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128221734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rethinking BachPub Date : 2021-11-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190943899.003.0007
Isabella van Elferen
{"title":"Rethinking Affect","authors":"Isabella van Elferen","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190943899.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190943899.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter rethinks affect, one of the key constituents of musical aesthetics in Bach’s time. Interrogating the musicological concept of Affektenlehre, it addresses musical affect as a new perspective on what musicology has tended to isolate historically under the umbrella of German Baroque rhetoric. The first paragraphs sketch a historiography of hermeneutic views of the Affektenlehre and address the criticisms that this approach has encountered. Based on a rereading of historical sources, the chapter investigates the ways in which twentieth-century musicologists developed views on affect in German Baroque music, the relation of these views to the historical situation, and their role in Bach studies. Taking into account early modern affect theories as well as the modern philosophies of affect based upon them, the final paragraphs aim to achieve an understanding of affect that is more in line with contemporary musical practice and theory.","PeriodicalId":355356,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Bach","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128100398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rethinking BachPub Date : 2021-11-18DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190943899.003.0015
Michael Markham
{"title":"Bach Anxiety","authors":"Michael Markham","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190943899.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190943899.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"A recent Twitter post by the composer Nico Muhly aligns with a recurring trope of “Bach-ness” that defines Bach’s public mythic profile. This chapter focuses on similar images of Bach, whether visual or aural. Bach has been most commonly imagined in the popular consciousness as representing not the human but the superhuman, the inhuman, the dehumanized, and the sublime. One can sense in recent writings on Bach an anxiety about how well these attributes can continue to resonate in our current moment of political or cultural relevance tests, and about which works by Bach are most likely to thrive in this new postmodern media world. I will wonder aloud, with some trepidation, whether Bach’s public mythic profile, long solidified along Modernist lines as the encyclopedic mathematical mystic, is undergoing a broad, gradual change; indeed, if it needs to in order for his music to survive in a twenty-first-century media environment and amid a postmodern audience sensibility.","PeriodicalId":355356,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Bach","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128803092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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