Download or read book Universal Bach written by and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a fitting commemorative of the Basically Bach Festival’s celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Festival was organized by a small committee in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia in 1976. Contents: Musical & Numerical Symbolism in the Large Choral Works: Bach’s Secret Code, by Michael Korn; The Articulation of Genre in Bach’s Instrumental Music, by Laurence Dreyfus; Bach the Cantor, the Capellmeister, & the Musical Scholar: Aspects of the “B-Minor Mass,” by Christoph Wolff; On Bach’s Universality, by Robert L. Marshall; & Bach as Biblical Interpreter, by Richard L. Jeske. Illustrations.