[AMS-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: Summer Course: Bach's B Minor Mass, Yale Institute of Sacred Music

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Summer Course: Bach's B Minor Mass

The Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) offers in the context of its annual summer program a seminar on Johann Sebastian Bach's B Minor Mass (June 8-12,  2009). The course will be taught by Yale faculty member Markus Rathey, PhD. As in recent years, the courses at the ISM are filling up quickly but a few places are still available. The fee for the one week course is $325. For more information check the web site:
<http://www.yale.edu/sdqsummerterm/ism015.htm>http://www.yale.edu/sdqsummerterm/ism015.htm

The course:
Johann Sebastian Bach's B Minor Mass
June 8 ? 12, 9:00 - 11:30 am

In 1818 the Swiss Musician Hans Georg Naegeli called Johann Sebastian Bach?s Mass in B Minor the ?greatest musical artwork of all times and people?. But Bach?s latest large scaled vocal composition is not only one of his most important; it is also one of his most problematic works, because the history of its origin and of its transmission is very complex. The first two parts of the mass, Kyrie and Gloria, were already composed in 1733, and Bach had sent copies of them to the court in Dresden. The whole mass wasn't completed until a few years before the end of Bach?s life. The course will explore the origin of the Mass in B Minor, the musical and theological basis for his understanding of the text of the mass, and the liturgical context of Bach's music.


The teacher:
Markus Rathey, PhD, is associate professor of music history at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, the Yale School of Music, and the Yale Divinity School. As a scholar, dedicated to the work and life of Johann Sebastian Bach, he is a frequent contributor to the Bach-Jahrbuch, Bach Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Society, and other journals. He is president of the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship and serves on the editorial board for the Bach Journal. He recently contributed the chapter on Bach's Chorale cantatas
for the Bach Handbuch, published by Laaber.  
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