Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism)
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'... this is a book with spaces for thought, infused with a sense of excitement about the material. it is probably the most important monograph on counterpoint in the eighteenth century to have appeared since Warren Kirkendale's tirelessly detailed Fugue and Fugato in Rococo and Classical Chamber Music.' Eighteenth-Century Music
' ... the concept behind the book, its thorough and scholarly execution, and the high intellectual level of the writing, all make it an indispensable study for students of Bach's late published works.' Early Music
Book Description
This book offers new interpretations of many of Bach's late compositions which include complex musical techniques such as canon. These techniques held great significance for Bach and his contemporaries not only on account of the great skill they demanded but because of the meanings attached to them. Intricate musical devices were crucial to the Lutheran rituals of death and dying, to alchemy, to Enlightenment philosophies of stylistic change and musical progress, to musical representations of political power, and to the legacy of Bach into our own time.
Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism)
Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism),David Yearsley,Jeffrey Kallberg,Anthony Newcomb,Ruth Solie,Cambridge University Press,0521803462,1685-1750,Bach, Johann Sebastian,,Counterpoint,Genres & Styles - Classical,History & Criticism - General,Instruction & Study - Theory,Music,Bach, Johann Sebastian,Music / General
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