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MHMUS 414 — J.S. Bach: Major Vocal Works

3 credits
Fall
Jonathan Yaeger

Prerequisite: MHMUS 311 . We will closely study J.S. Bach’s two Passion settings, Christmas Oratorio, and the Mass in B Minor. Our topics will include sources and their challenges, liturgical and theological contexts, harmonic and textual analysis, Bach’s performance practices (and ours), reception history, and the pieces’ present places in culture and repertory across the world today. While there will be no midterm or final exam, students will write three succinct, focused papers, each no more than one thousand words, on topics of the instructor’s choosing.