Bach Studies: Liturgy, Hymnology, and Theology

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of contents Examples Figures Tables Preface Abbreviations Part I Liturgy 1 Bach’s cantatas and the liturgical year The liturgical year Epistles and Gospels in Lutheran worship Epistles and Gospels, and the dissemination of Bach’s cantatas Epistles and Gospels in Lutheran culture The development of the cantata from the chanted lections 2 Bach’s music and the Leipzig liturgy Churches and choirs Liturgical sources and studies Hauptgottesdienst Preparation Ministry of the Word Ministry of the Sacrament Dismissal Vespergottesdienst Bach as the leader of liturgical music 3 Bach’s Agnus Dei compositions Historical background Lutheran eucharistic theology Bach’s Estomihi cantatas Agnus Dei combined with Kyrie Estomihi and Good Friday The Agnus Dei in the B-minor Mass 4 Bach’s parody process: From cantata to Missa 5 Bach and the cantata controversy of the early eighteenth century Cantata 82 Cantata libretti Gottfried Ephraim Scheibel Opera in church One-affect-theory Bach and the “theatralische Stil” Bach’s poets Bach in collaboration with his poets Excursus: Cantata libretti published in Nuremberg 1728 Part II Hymnology 6 Bach and Johann Christoph Olearius Johann Christoph Olearius, Arnstadt deacon Hanseatic journeys from Arnstadt Johann Christoph Olearius, pioneer hymnologist Liedpredigten Johann Christoph Olearius’s Dispositionen An Arnstadt chorale-based organ manual (1704) Olearius’s continuing influence in Bach’s later years 7 Bach’s Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 4): Hymnology and chronology The evidence of the extant parts Textual variations in Bach’s libretto Olearius on Christ lag in Todesbanden and Bach’s libretto The Chorale Cantata (BWV 4) 8 Bach’s Orgelbüchlein The manuscript: Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin. Mus. Ms. Bach P 283 The question of chronology The overall plan of the Orgelbüchlein The Orgelbüchlein in relation to a Choralbuch Chorale preambling redefined The Neumeister Collection The influence of Pachelbel 9 Bach and the hymnic aria Rist and Gerhardt Hymns and arias Did Bach distance himself from the traditional chorale? 10 Bach and the letter codes of the Schemelli Gesangbuch Identification of chorale melodies Multiple texts and melodies Hymnals linked to specific chorale books Encoded keys Bach, Schemelli, and codes Coda Part III Theology 11 Bach and Pietism Some views of Bach and Pietism Lutheran Pietism Some comparisons of Pietists and Orthodox Christian Gerber (1660–1731) Valentin Ernst Löscher (1673–1749) Johann Jacob Rambach (1693–1735) Erdmann Neumeister (1671–1756) Pietism and Bach 12 Bach, Gesner, and Johann August Ernesti Johann Matthias Gesner (1691–1761) Johann August Ernesti (1707–1781) Different approaches to curriculum reform The so-called “Präfektenstreit” Was the cause of the conflict about theology or music? Gesner’s footnote on Bach Gesner’s footnote in Leipzig 13 Bach and Erdmann Neumeister Neumeister and Weissenfels Confession and Absolution Neumeister in Sorau and Hamburg Bach and Weissenfels Hamburg 1720 Hamburg and Leipzig 14 Bach’s Clavierübung III Reformation in Leipzig Luther’s preaching The Trinitarian preludes Luther’s catechisms The Large Catechism settings The Small Catechism settings The four Duets Pages in Vopelius 15 Bach and anniversaries of the Reformation Historical background A Weimar Reformation Day cantata? The bicentenary of the Reformation, 1717 Bibliography Primary sources, before 1800 Secondary sources Index