アルノルト・シュミッツ著 : Die bildlichkeit der wortgebundenen Musik Johann Sebastian Bachsの内容に関する一考察

Die Bildlichkeit der wortgebundenen Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs by A. Scmitz is a
special book on“Figurenlehre" which played an important part in the composition's
method of the baroque era. This book deals with “Figurenlehre" in general and the
relation of it to J. S. Bachs music from the viewpoint of the historical method. Schmitz
has an opinion that Bach's music connected with the text is to be interpreted on the base of
“Figurenlehre"，and not to be interpreted from the viewpoint of symbolic expression.
Until now，I have studied Bach's music from the viewpoint of symbolic expression， so，
in this study，I had a hope to broaden my outlook by understanding and investigating
Schmitz's opinions.
As a result of this study，I could confirm that his opinions were very important，but I
became aware of some doubts and issues that I could not agree with him or I was
dissatisfied with his opinions.