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⁷ Not surprisingly, Webber's Oxford thesis is centred on one of these sources: ‘A Study of the Italian Influence on North German Church and Organ Music in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century, with Special Reference to the Collection of Gustav Düben’, D.Phil, thesis, Oxford, 1988Google Scholar.

⁸ Indeed, the book intersects well with my Music Education, which is – with fortuitous reciprocation – primarily concerned with the educational context and gives only scant attention to the musical repertories.

⁹ See, for instance, Melamed's, Daniel recent study of Bach's place within the German motet tradition, J.S. Bach and the German Motet (Cambridge, 1995)Google Scholar.

¹⁰ The role performance tacitly plays in our conception of great musical works is aptly demonstrated by the furore over Bach's vocal scoring, which, as Joshua Rifkin has demonstrated, follows exactly the seventeenth-century convention of using solo singers optionally reinforced by a ripieno group. The fact that Bach may have chosen not to employ the latter very often, and in any case conceived of the ‘choral’ line soloistically, radically challenges our notion of the immutable identity of great music, an identity that seeks its justification in origins yet is often wholly conceived in the process of reception.

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