Johann Sebastian Bach’s Kreuzstab Cantata (BWV 56): Identifying the Emotional Content of the Libretto

Along with numerous other music theorists of the eighteenth century, Johann Joachim Quantz compares an expressive musical performance to the delivery of a persuasive speech by a distinguished orator. For a successful rhetorical delivery of the music of that period, however, today’s musicians not onl...

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Main Author: Georg Corall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Western Australia 2015-03-01
Series:Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies
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Online Access:http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/2697455/Corall-article.pdf