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Archive | 2011

Histories of Heinrich Schütz

Bettina Varwig

Introduction 1. Trumpets and drums (Psalmen Davids, 1617) Paraphrase 1. Lutheran Schutz 2. Echoes, mirrors and masks (Dafne, 1627) Paraphrase 2. Operatic Schutz 3. Life, death and afterlife (Musikalische Exequien, 1636) Paraphrase 3. Monumental Schutz 4. Old and new worlds (Geistliche Chormusik, 1648) Paraphrase 4. Rhetorical Schutz Conclusion.


19th-Century Music | 2014

Beware the Lamb: Staging Bach's Passions

Bettina Varwig

This article considers the twentieth- and twenty-first-century practice of presenting Johann Sebastian Bachs Passion compositions on stage, in light of recent debates about performativity, presence and liveness. By tracing the history of such stagings from Ferruccio Busonis plans in the 1920s to contemporary versions by Peter Sellars, Alain Platel, and others, I explore the increasing tendency to turn these canonical works into politically or aesthetically relevant events. Through a close reading of the critical reception of each production, I show how stagings have the capacity to challenge productively our easy familiarity with these pieces outside their initial liturgical setting. Unlike a standard concert presentation, staged performances tend to confront audiences more immediately with the violent imagery and spiritual demands of the Passions, thereby continually renewing the dialogue between Bachs works and later audiences. The article thus offers a contribution to an anthropological enquiry into the present-day cult of Bach and the particular forms of aesthetic pleasure that classical music affords its twenty-first-century devotees.


Representations | 2018

Heartfelt Musicking: The Physiology of a Bach Cantata

Bettina Varwig

This essay proposes a somatic archaeology of German Lutheran music making around 1700. Focusing on a single cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, it sets out to reconstruct the capacities of early modern body-souls for musical reverberation, affective contagion, and spiritual transformation.


Osterreichische Musikzeitschrift | 2010

MONSIEUR CROCHES DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNÉ DE LA MUSIQUE, ANNÉE 2010

Alfred Brendel; Lewis Carroll; Andreas Dorschel; David J. Hill; Laurenz Lütteken; Britta Sweers; Bettina Varwig

In einem Land, das Musikalität zu seinen Natureigenschaften zählt, bietet Marion Diederichs-Lafites Österreichische Musikzeitschrift der unnatürlichen Tätigkeit des Denkens seit einigen Jahrzehnten Raum. Als bescheidenen Dank dafür möge sie die folgenden Gedankensplitter und Glossen ansehen. Ansehen wird man ihnen auch, dass sie aus einer Zeit stammen, welche dazu neigt, Musik den Musikern aus der Hand zu nehmen und sie Musikmanagern sowie Musiktherapeuten – professionellen Musikdilettanten also – zu überantworten. Das Fragment eines Wörterbuchs, das die mit ihren Initialen signierenden Autoren hier vorlegen, zielt nicht auf Purifizierung der Sprache. Es ist selber unrein. Marginales stellt es neben Wichtiges; Kalauer mischt es unter gründlichere Reflexionen. Diese ziehen im Geist Harald Kaufmanns, an den dieses MUSIKZEITheft erinnert, Spuren musikalischer Sprachund Sachkritik. Und Kaufmann liebte Debussy, den Komponisten vor allem, aber auch den Kritiker, der wusste, dass die Sorte Erkenntnis, welche für dergleichen in Frage kommt, heiter sein und boshaft werden darf.


Music & Letters | 2009

'Mutato semper habitu': Heinrich Schütz and the Culture of Rhetoric

Bettina Varwig


The Journal of Musicology | 2012

Metaphors of Time and Modernity in Bach

Bettina Varwig


Early Music | 2014

Knowing what we do not know

Bettina Varwig


Journal for Eighteenth-century Studies | 2012

The Worlds of Johann Sebastian Bach – Edited by Raymond Erickson

Bettina Varwig


19th-Century Music | 2008

ONE MORE TIME: J. S. BACH AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY TRADITIONS OF RHETORIC

Bettina Varwig


19th-Century Music | 2018

JOYCE L. IRWIN, ED. AND TRANS. FORETASTES OF HEAVEN IN LUTHERAN CHURCH MUSIC TRADITION: JOHANN MATTHESON AND CHRISTOPH RAUPACH ON MUSIC IN TIME AND ETERNITY London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015 pp. xlix + 162,isbn 978 1 442 23263 1

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Lawson Health Research Institute

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