O Cântico de Maria (Lc 1,46-55) como inspiração para o Magnificat de Bach

Abstract

This investigation intended to raise the influence of Magnificat, Mary's Song in Lc 1,46- 55, about Johann Sebastian Bach's in D major Magnificat. Cultural, religious, time and style criteria were considered in the texts in question. It has taken as focus the first chapter of Luke's Magnificat, carefully approached since its genesis, passing through prophecy and Infancy Gospel, and being visited in its literary, social-historical, theological and structural contexts. The second and last chapter of this study opened with aesthetic and historical data of the German composer, and performed attentive analysis regarding musical composition techniques and as rhetoric in the adequacy of Luke's lyrics and Bach's music. There was, at the end of the chapter, a quick incursion to the musical universe of the 20th 21st centuries, in the request of two of the closest plays of our time: "Mary's Chant" from a Lutheran hymnbook, and the song "You are the Center" by Frei Gilson. The investigation enabled our enrichment in epistemology and spirituality, and answered affirmatively - with the expected adjustment and update of aesthetics - to the inquiry concerning the influence of Luke's Magnificat in Bach's Magnificat