Johann Sebastian Bach’s Passions: Between Drama and Lyrics

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Passions are considered to be a synthesis of dramatic and lyric principles. Traditional comparison of Passions with musical drama or ancient tragedy does not exhaustively express the nature of the genre because in the Passions, dramatic action coexists with a lyrical dimensio...

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Main Author: Alexander E. Makhov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2016-09-01
Series:Studia Litterarum
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Online Access:http://old.studlit.ru/articles/Makhov.pdf