Bach's architecture of gratitude

• Verfasst von: Crooks, James [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Bach's architecture of gratitude
• Titelzusatz: on the genius of the Mass in B minor
• Verf.angabe: James Crooks
• Verlagsort: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago
• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: xx, 189 Seiten
• Format: 24 cm
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-2280-2062-2
• ISBN: 978-0-2280-2063-9
• Schlagwörter: (t)Bach, Johann Sebastian / Messen, BWV 232
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Crooks, James, 1959 - : Bach's Architecture of Gratitude. - 1st ed.. - Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024. - 1 online resource (211 pages)
• Sach-SW: Messes - Analyse et appréciation
• Sach-SW: Gratitude
• Sach-SW: Gratitude
• Sach-SW: Masses - Analysis, appreciation
• Sach-SW: Criticism, interpretation, etc
• K10plus-PPN: 1891091026

Abstract

Virtually every music-lover has experienced musical ecstasy - a kind of ecstatic certainty that piece of music has captured an incontrovertible truth. In Bach's Architecture of Gratitude James Crooks explores this profound aesthetic experience of listening to music through a case study of J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor - widely considered to be one of the most monumental and beloved works in the history of Western music. Asking why the Mass has been perceived for centuries as monumental, the book investigates how the compositional principles of the work offer a detailed map of our spiritual journey through it. Crooks centers his study in the idea of gratitude as a mode of knowing; through gratitude, the experience of musical ecstasy teaches us something crucial about the genuine nature of our own identity, our relations with others, and the character of the things around us. The Mass is a trigger of musical ecstasy and its attendant gratitude because it models, in its cathedral-like architecture, a structure that synthesizes all things into a coherent, unified whole. Crooks describes this musical structure as genius in the etymological sense where genius is the power of a work to generate coherent form in an experience so complex and massive that it seems impossible to be sensible, perceivable, or knowable. This capacity of the Mass is a gift that inspires profound gratitude. Spotlighting the wisdom embedded in gratitude, Bach's Architecture of Gratitude celebrates music as a pathway to understanding our deepest selves and our intimacy with the world."--