Rethinking Bach

This book a offers a multitude of provocative new perspectives on one of the most iconic composers in the Western classical tradition. Its collective rethinking of some of our most cherished narratives and deeply held beliefs about Johann Sebastian Bach will allow readers to see the man in a new light and to hear his music with new ears.

Bettina Varwig is Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College. She has published widely on music and cultural history in the early modern period.

- Acknowledgements - List of Contributors - Abbreviations - Introduction: (Still) Talking about Bach - Bettina Varwig - I. Histories - Chapter 1 - Bach and Material Culture - Stephen Rose - Chapter 2 - Rethinking 1829 - Ellen Exner - Chapter 3 - Post/Colonial Bach - Yvonne Liao - II. Bodies - Chapter 4 - Bach and the Soprano Voice - Wendy Heller - Chapter 5 - Embodied Invention: Bach at the Keyboard - Bettina Varwig - Chapter 6 - Rethinking Affect - Isabella van Elferen - III. Meanings - Chapter 7 - Bach and Theology - Jeremy Begbie - Chapter 8 - Bach the Humorist - David Yearsley - Chapter 9 - Rethinking Bach Codes - Daniel R. Melamed - Chapter 10 - Bach's Works and the Listener's Viewpoint - John Butt - IV. Currents - Chapter 11 - Bach's Chorale Pedagogy - Derek Remeš - Chapter 12 - Rethinking Editions: Mass, Missa, and Monument Culture - Joshua Rifkin - Chapter 13 - Bach Against Modernity - Michael Marissen - Chapter 14 - Bach Anxiety: A Meditation on the Future of the Past - Michael Markham - Works Cited - Index