Displaying 1 of 1 2013 Format: Book Author: Gardiner, John Eliot. Title: Bach : music in the castle of heaven / John Eliot Gardiner. Edition: First United States edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. Description: xxxiv, 628 pages, 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 25 cm Summary: "From one of Bach's greatest living interpreters, a landmark study which explains in ... detail how the composer worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects--and what it can tell us about Bach the man"-- Provided by publisher. Subjects: Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Composers -- Germany -- Biography. Other Title: Music in the castle of heaven Notes: "Originally published in Great Britain as Music in the castle of heaven, by Allen Lane"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Under the cantor's gaze -- Germany on the brink of enlightenment -- The Bach gene -- The class of '85 -- The mechanics of faith -- The incorrigible cantor -- Bach at his workbench -- Cantatas or coffee? -- Cycles and seasons -- First Passion -- His "Great Passion" -- Collision and collusion -- The habit of perfection -- "Old Bach." Web Site: Cover image LCCN: 2013030398 ISBN: 9780375415296 0375415297 Other Number: 842880670 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 384793 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: BIO Bach Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
