Bach: The Mass in B Minor: The Great Catholic Mass

by George B. Stauffer

Book Overview

In this book George B. Stauffer explores the music and complex history of Bach's last and possibly greatest masterpiece. Stauffer examines the B-Minor Mass in greater detail than ever before, demonstrating for the first time Bach's reliance on contemporary models from the Dresden Mass repertory and his brilliantly innovative methods of unifying his immense composition. Musicians, music scholars, students, and music lovers will find in this engagingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300099665
• ISBN13: 9780300099669
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"