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Publications by Michael Marissen:
BOOKS
Bach's Oratorios - The parallel German-English texts, with annotations (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming c2008).
ed., Creative responses to Bach from Mozart to Hindemith, Bach Perspectives 3 (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998).
Lutheranism, anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Daniel R. Melamed and Michael Marissen, An introduction to Bach studies (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
The social and religious designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995; Japanese translation, Tokyo: Shoseki, forthcoming?).
ARTICLES
"Rejoicing against Judaism in Handel's Messiah," Journal of Musicology 24 (2007), 167-94.
"Historically informed rendering of the librettos from Bach's church cantatas," in Music and Theology: Essays in honor of Robin A. Leaver, ed. Daniel Zager (Lanham, Md & London: Scarecrow Press, 2007), 103-20.
"Blood, people, and crowds in Matthew, Luther, and Bach," Lutheran Quarterly 19, no. 1 (2005), 1-22.
"Performance practice issues that affect meaning in two Bach instrumental works," in Reading texts: the interpretation of sources in musical scholarship, ed. Stephen A. Crist and Roberta Marvin (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2004), 85-94.
"The character and sources of the anti-Judaism in Bach's Cantata 46," Harvard Theological Review 96, no. 1 (2003): 63-99.
"On the musically theological in J. S. Bach's church cantatas," Lutheran Quarterly 16, no. 1 (2002): 48-64.
"Aufführungspraxis und Bedeutung in zwei Instrumentalwerken Johann Sebastian Bachs," in Bach und die Stile, ed. Martin Geck and Klaus Hofmann (Dortmund: Klangfarben Musikverlag, 1999), 291-301.
"Penzel manuscripts of Bach concertos," in Bachs Orchesterwerke, eds. Martin Geck and Werner Breig (Witten: Klangfarben Musikverlag, 1997), 77-87.
"The theological character of J. S. Bach's Musical Offering," in Bach-Studies 2, ed. Daniel R. Melamed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 85-106.
"Concerto styles and signification in Bach's First Brandenburg Concerto," in Bach Perspectives 1, ed. Russell Stinson (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995), 79-101.
"Bach and recorders in G," Galpin Society Journal 48 (1995): 199-204.
"More source-critical research on J. S. Bach's Musical Offering," Bach: the Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute 25, no. 1 (1994): 11-27.
"Religious aims in Mendelssohn's 1829 Berlin-Singakademie performances of Bach's St. Matthew Passion," Musical Quarterly 77 (1993): 718-26.
"J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos as a meaningful set," Musical Quarterly 77 (1993): 193-235.
"On linking Bach's F-major Sinfonia and his Hunt Cantata," Bach: the Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute 23, no. 2 (1992): 31-46.
"Organological questions and their significance in J. S. Bach's Fourth Brandenburg Concerto," Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 17 (1991): 5-52.
"Beziehungen zwischen der Besetzung und dem Satzaufbau im ersten Satz des sechsten Brandenburgischen Konzerts von Johann Sebastian Bach," Beiträge zur Bach-Forschung 9/10 (1991): 104-28.
"Relationships between scoring and structure in the first movement of Bach's Sixth Brandenburg Concerto," Music and Letters 71 (1990): 494-504.
"A critical reappraisal of J. S. Bach's A-major flute sonata," Journal of Musicology 6 (1988): 367-86.
"A trio in C major for recorder, violin and continuo by J. S. Bach?" Early Music 13 (1985): 384-90.
SELECTED OTHER PUBLICATIONS
article, "Usettling History of That Joyous 'Hallelujah'," New York Times, Sunday Arts & Leisure section, April 8, 2007; reprinted in International Herald Tribune, Paris, Culture section, April 24, 2007.
essay: "Bach's gamba sonatas," for booklet in compact disc of Bach's sonatas by Emily Walhout and Byron Schenkman (Centaur Records, 2005).
article: Paula Fredriksen, Tom Hall, Christopher M. Leighton, and Michael Marissen, "When the words hurt - the gospel of John, Bach's music, and religious intolerance," Service International de Documentation Judéo-Chrétienne 34, no. 3 (2001): 19-28.
essay: "Bach's Brandenburg Concertos," for booklet in compact disc of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos by the Bach Collegium of Japan, dir. Masaaki Suzuki (BIS Records, Sweden, 2001).
article: "Perspectives on the 'St. John Passion' and the Jews," New York Times, Sunday Arts & Leisure section, April 2, 2000.
article: Daniel R. Melamed and Michael Marissen, "Bach, Johann Sebastian - biographies," in Reader's guide to music: history, theory, and criticism, ed. Murray Steib (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Pub., 1999), 36-37.
essays: "Brandenburg Concertos," "Christian Ludwig, margrave of Brandenburg," "Musical Offering," "recorder," in Oxford composer companions: J. S. Bach, ed. Malcolm Boyd (London: Oxford University Press, 1999), 68-73, 95-100, 308-11, 408-9.
essay: "Is religious faith incompatible with academic life?" Swarthmore College Bulletin 96, no. 3 (December 1998): 3.
article: Margot Fassler, Steven D. Fraade, Michael Marissen, and Wayne A. Meeks, "Conversations on John's gospel and Bach's St. John Passion," Spectrum: Report of the Yale Divinity School 18, no. 1 (1998): 10-11.
essay: "J. S. Bach: orchestral suites and sinfonias," for booklet in compact disc of Bach's orchestral suites by the English Concert, dir. Trevor Pinnock (Hamburg: Deutsche Grammophon GmbH - Archiv Produktion, 1995).
review: "Bach-Repertoire für Flötisten," Tibia 12 (1987): 537-40.
SELECTED NONPRINT
National Public Radio, "Sing to the glory of God: The legacy of anti-Judaism in Christian choral music, " taped from Baltimore studio, with Tom Hall (director, Baltimore Choral Arts Society), Michael Marissen (Swarthmore College), Luke Timothy Johnson (Emory University), and others.
National Public Radio, Performance Today, with Lynn Neary, "Milestones of the Millennium: J. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion," taped interview from Washington studios, broadcast April 21, 2000, with soprano Ann Monoyios, tenor Ian Bostridge; conductors Ton Koopman (Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus), Kenneth Slowik (Smithsonian Chamber Players and Chorus), and Joshua Rifkin (The Bach Ensemble); and Bach scholars Christoph Wolff (Harvard University) and Michael Marissen (Swarthmore College).
National Public Radio, The Connection, with Christopher Lydon, "Bach's 'Passion'," live interview and call-in show from Boston studios, April 11, 2000, with Michael Marissen (Swarthmore College) and Julian Wachner (School of Theology, Boston University).
"On how J. S. Bach avoided anti-Judaism [in his passion settings]," Mars Hill Audio Journal 37 (1999): side 2.