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Hearing Bach's Passions.(Book review)
Hearing Bach's Passions. By Daniel R. Melamed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [xi, 178 p. ISBN 0-19-516933-6. $24.95.] Index, bibliography, tables.
In 1925, in the preface to two short books on J. S. Bach's Passion settings, Charles Sanford Terry wrote: "This volume and its sequel exceed the requirements of those whose interest in Bach's Passions is confined to the two that survive. I preferred to treat the subject exhaustively because there is no other book on the subject, in English or foreign literature, accessible to the student, whose needs ... [The Musical Pilgrim] Series serves." (Bach: The Passions, Book I 1723-1725 (The Musical Pilgrim) [Oxford: ...
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