Bach in America /
In Bach in America, volume 5 of Bach Perspectives, nine scholars track Johann Sebastian Bach's reputation in America from an artist of relative obscurity to a cultural mainstay whose music has spread to all parts of the population, inspired a wealth of scholarship, captivated listeners, and ins...
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| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2003]
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| Series: | Bach perspectives ;
v. 5. |
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Table of Contents:
- Bach comes to America / Barbara Owen
- Doing missionary work : Dwight's Journal of Music and the American Bach awakening / Matthew Dirst
- Haupt's boys : lobbying for Bach in nineteenth-century Boston / Michael Broyles
- "The public ... would probably prefer something that appeals less to the brain and more to the senses" : the reception of Bach's music in New York City, 1855-1900 / Mary J. Greer
- "A lineal descendant of the great musician, John Sebastian Bach"? : Bach descendants in the United States and the problem of family oral tradition / Hans-Joachim Schulze
- Descendants of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach in the United States / Christoph Wolff
- On miscellaneous American Bach sources / Peter Wollny
- "Father knew (and filled me up with) Bach" : Bach and Ives
- affinities in lines and spaces / Carol K. Baron
- The role and meaning of the Bach chorale in the music of Dave Brubeck / Stephen A. Crist.