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Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
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The book offers musical insights into Bach's sacred music, and also into his time and place. We are presented with the results of a lot of fascinating (and on-going) research.
I love the cantatas, passions, masses... and have them all. I took helpful notes on what to listen out for in those cantatas I'm not familiar with. The Passions and the B Minor Mass are treated towards the end and I gave up at the end of the Kyrie. Reading about the B Minor Mass is a task for another time.
I thought that John Eliot Gardiner's enthusiastic prose could have done with some editing but occasionally there were inspiring passages of considerable beauty.
Because of the density and convolutions of the prose style, the smallness of the typeface and the over 660 pages I found this an eye-and-wrist-straining read.
by
The book offers musical insights into Bach's sacred music, and also into his time and place. We are presented with the results of a lot of fascinating (and on-going) research.
I love the cantatas, passions, masses... and have them all. I took helpful notes on what to listen out for in those cantatas I'm not familiar with. The Passions and the B Minor Mass are treated towards the end and I gave up at the end of the Kyrie. Reading about the B Minor Mass is a task for another time.
I thought that John Eliot Gardiner's enthusiastic prose could have done with some editing but occasionally there were inspiring passages of considerable beauty.
Because of the density and convolutions of the prose style, the smallness of the typeface and the over 660 pages I found this an eye-and-wrist-straining read.
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Reading Progress
April 25, 2014
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Started Reading
April 25, 2014
– Shelved
April 25, 2014
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4.61%
"Oh dear. Such disappointment. The great interpreter is no writer. Such a welter of adverbs, adjectives and parentheses and all in 10 point type. For me this will only be a book for dipping into and reference."
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31
April 25, 2014
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4.61%
"Oh dear. Such disappointment. The great interpreter is no writer. Such a welter of adverbs and parentheses and all in 10 point type. For me this will only be a book for dipping into and reference."
page
31
April 25, 2014
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4.61%
"Oh dear. The great interpreter is no writer. Such a welter of adverbs and parentheses and all in 10 point type. For me this will only be a book for dipping into and reference."
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31
April 26, 2014
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10.27%
"I have got over my reservations about the author's style and the 10 pt type. I am enraptured. I am a cantata junkie."
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69
May 19, 2014
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45.54%
"I have got over my reservations about the author's style and the 10 pt type. I am enraptured. I am a cantata junkie."
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306
June 21, 2014
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45.54%
"I have got over my reservations about the author's style and the 10 pt type. I am enraptured. I am a cantata junkie.
Break in continuity because the library needed the book back."
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306
Break in continuity because the library needed the book back."
August 4, 2014
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Finished Reading
