Article: Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach.

Eric Chafe seeks in this book to reveal a connection between J.S. Bach's use of tonality and the underlying spiritual dimensions in his vocal music. Chafe's method lies mainly in the application of traditional Lutheran hermeneutics, in the sense of biblical interpretation, to Bach's synthesis of text and music. Beneath the literal-cumhistorical interpretation of scripture lie three spiritual modes of interpretation: the allegorical, which points to a meaning outside the passage itself; the tropological or moral, which relates the passage to the life of the believer; and the eschatological, which looks beyond history to the end of time. In chapter 2, Chafe applies these ...

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