{"id":423,"date":"2016-12-06T00:53:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T06:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/musicandreligion\/?p=423"},"modified":"2016-12-06T00:53:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T06:53:21","slug":"exploring-the-religious-significance-of-brandenburg-concerto-no-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/musicandreligion\/2016\/12\/06\/exploring-the-religious-significance-of-brandenburg-concerto-no-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Religious Significance of Brandenburg Concerto No.5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fascinated by the other-worldly keyboard\u00a0capriccio of Bach’s Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, I devoted my last paper<\/a> to exploring the religious symbolism of the piece. In this paper, I will continue studying this subject\u00a0and\u00a0examine questions reminaed unresolved from the previous essay.<\/p>\n

Drawing on Michael Marissen’s\u00a0writings in\u00a0The Social and Religious Designs of J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos<\/em>, I have evidenced the\u00a0religious symbolism embedded in the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto with relevant passges from Lutheran theological documents. In the next draft, I would like to bring in broader Lutheran theology on music-makings, especially to demonstrate\u00a0Luther’s own writings about music, discussed in Robin Leaver’s article ” Luther on music” (Lutheran Quarterly <\/em>20\/2, 2006: 125-145). An efficient use of this resource will better justify my interpretations of sacred messages from Bach’s “secular” composition.<\/p>\n

In addtion, I will also expand the music analysis provided in\u00a0the current draft. For the moment, I have overviewed the formal structures of each movment and specifically broken down the keyboard cappricio in the first movement in terms of its musical gestures and designs. To further strengthen my argument, I will be drwaing attentions to overall harmonic progressions and musical details in other movements as musical evidences of Bach’s perception and depiction\u00a0of heaven and earth. Importantly, more comprehensive\u00a0musical analysis potentially enables a new aspect\u00a0of my argument. Currently, my thesis centralized on\u00a0examining how Bach delivered religious messages in the music. However, with closer musical analysis of the piece, I have noticed a recognizable cyclic musical depictions in all movements of Fifth Bradenburg Concerto which starts from the earth, progressing to the\u00a0heaven, and eventually returned to the\u00a0earth. Therefore, building on my current argument on the religious metaphors that Bach adapted in his composition, I hope to also prove\u00a0the religiously transformative listening and performing experience generated from the music.<\/p>\n

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Fascinated by the other-worldly keyboard\u00a0capriccio of Bach’s Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, I devoted my last paper to exploring the religious symbolism of the piece. In this paper, I will continue studying this subject\u00a0and\u00a0examine questions reminaed unresolved from the previous essay. Drawing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/musicandreligion\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/musicandreligion\/feed\/podcast\/st-olaf-podcasts-music-and-religion","embedCode":"

Exploring the Religious Significance of Brandenburg Concerto No.5<\/a><\/blockquote>