Polish Style In The Music Of Johann Sebastian Bach Contextual Bach Studies 6 1st Edition Szymon Paczkowski by Szymon Paczkowski, Robin A. Leaver 9780810888937, 0810888939 instant download after payment.

Music has its own distinctive characteristics—melody, harmony, rhythm, form, etc.—that have to be fully appreciated if it is to be effectively understood. But a detailed comprehension of all these musical elements cannot reveal the significance of all the compositional choices made by a composer. “What?” and “how?” questions need to be supplemented by appropriate
“why?” and “when?” questions. Study of the original score and parts, as well as the different manifestations of a particular work, have to be undertaken. But if such study is regarded as an end rather than a beginning, then the music itself will not necessarily be fully understood. One must go further. There are various contexts that impinge upon a composer’s choices. Music is conditioned by time, place, and culture and therefore is influenced by particular historical, geographical, and social contexts; music written in fulfillment of a contractual agreement has an economic context; and so forth.
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach has been the object of intensive study and analysis, but in the past many of these studies have been somewhat narrow in focus. For example, the received view of Bach’s music was to some degree incomplete because it was largely discussed on its own terms without being fully set within the contextual perspective of the musician’s predecessors, contemporaries, and successors. It is only in fairly recent times that the music of these other composers has become accessible, allowing us to appreciate the nature and stature of their accomplishments, and at the same time giving us new perspectives from which to view a more rounded picture of Bach’s genius.