Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations Reimagined

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Tables
Acknowledgments
Reimagining J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations
	Chapter Summaries
	Conclusions
1 Prelude: A Reception History of the Goldberg Variations in the Long Nineteenth Century
	Early Reception History of the Goldberg Variations
	Busoni’s Edition-Transcription-Arrangement-Re-Composition
	Conclusions
2 The Goldberg Variations Deconstructed: Transcriptions, Arrangements, and Re-Compositions, 1930–2020
	The Work Concept
	Textual Fidelity in the Mid-Twentieth Century
	A Surprising Resurrection of Busoni’s Goldberg Variations
	Transcriptions and Arrangements of the Goldberg Variations, 1990–2020
	Re-Compositions of the Goldberg Variations
	Conclusions
3 The Goldberg Variations Revisited: Multi-Composer Works, Poststructuralism, and the Open Work Concept
	Poststructuralism and the Open Text
	Two Case Studies
	Additional Sets of Multi-Composer Variations
	Part One
	Part Two
	Conclusions
4 Dancing to the Goldberg Variations
	Abstract Realizations of the Goldberg Variations
	The Extra-Musical and the Goldberg Variations
	Deconstructing and Humanizing Bach’s Goldberg Variations
	Conclusions: Bach and Dance
5 Bach as Machine/Bach as Human: The Goldberg Variations in Film Soundtracks
	Semiotics, Allusions, and Instrumentation
	Abstract Bach
	Human Bach
	Conclusions
6 The Goldberg Variations as Protest and Tragedy: Intertextual Readings in Theatrical Works of the Twentieth- and Twenty-First Centuries
	Dieter Kühn’s Goldberg-Variationen (1974)
	Stanley Walden and Bachs Letzte Oper (2002)
	George Tabori’s Goldberg-Variationen
	Tabori-Walden, Goldberg-Variationen, November 26, 2016, Karlsruhe
	Conclusions
7 Coda: The Goldberg Variations as Text, Color, and Image
	Summary
	The Goldberg Variations in Everyday Venues
	The Goldberg Variations and Digital Media
	The Goldberg Variations in Literature
	The Goldberg Variations in Visual Art
	The Goldberg Variations and Architecture
	Comparison to the Reception of Other Pieces By Bach
	Conclusions
Notes
	Reimagining J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Coda
Selected Bibliography
Index