Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 The musical genre of the mass Ordinary
- 2 Genesis and purpose
- 3 Reception history
- 4 Text and music: the process of adaptation and composition
- 5 Ritornello forms
- 6 The influence of the dance
- 7 Counterpoint
- 8 Figurae and the motivic texture
- 9 Patterns and proportions: large-scale structuring and continuity in the Mass in B Minor
- Afterword
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 The musical genre of the mass Ordinary
- 2 Genesis and purpose
- 3 Reception history
- 4 Text and music: the process of adaptation and composition
- 5 Ritornello forms
- 6 The influence of the dance
- 7 Counterpoint
- 8 Figurae and the motivic texture
- 9 Patterns and proportions: large-scale structuring and continuity in the Mass in B Minor
- Afterword
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Bach: Mass in B Minor , pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991