The Essential Bach Choir
by Andrew Parrott
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Author: Andrew ParrottEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-02-09
ISBN: 0851157866
Number of pages: 223
Publisher: Boydell Press
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Book Review: An excellent presentation of evidence and practical/historical argument
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is essential reading for anyone who cares about the practical and historical matters of the singing assignments in Bach's vocal music. Parrott presents a cogent argument, very well backed up with evidence.
The appendices are worth the price of the book, too. Among other things, they include a new and annotated translation of Bach's "Entwurff", other relevant contemporary documents, a reference table of the surviving vocal parts in Bach's music, plus a reprint of Joshua Rifkin's 1981 paper that sparked this revolution in Bach performance practice.
Advanced readers in this topic should continue by finding a copy of Dr Rifkin's 2002 book "Bach's Choral Ideal", already out of print but available through libraries. That book presents another 66 pages of argument and citations, further developing and updating his thesis over the 21 intervening years of discussion.
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