Book Review
Dec. 8th, 2024 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariDieterich Buxtehude, Organist in Lubeck
by Kerala J. Snyder
This book about Buxtehude and his music was excellent. Snyder covers both his life and his works with insight and clarity. The material is interesting in itself, but her presentation of it is among the best I've seen in books of this type. The sections on Buxtehude's lie include a lot of context about the places he worked in and people he dealt with, and it is all woven together very elegantly. Snyder eschews the kind of play-by-play narration of pieces that is often so tedious. Instead, she focuses on compositional features and stylistic elements and how they develop across Buxtehude's oeuvre. Her prose is clear and eminently readable. I came away with a much better understanding of Buxtehude's music and the world in which it was created.
by Kerala J. Snyder
This book about Buxtehude and his music was excellent. Snyder covers both his life and his works with insight and clarity. The material is interesting in itself, but her presentation of it is among the best I've seen in books of this type. The sections on Buxtehude's lie include a lot of context about the places he worked in and people he dealt with, and it is all woven together very elegantly. Snyder eschews the kind of play-by-play narration of pieces that is often so tedious. Instead, she focuses on compositional features and stylistic elements and how they develop across Buxtehude's oeuvre. Her prose is clear and eminently readable. I came away with a much better understanding of Buxtehude's music and the world in which it was created.
