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Author: Laurence Dreyfus
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 067423829X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this major new interpretation of the music of J.S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach's music "against the grain" of contemporaries, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach's approach to musical invention posed a fundamental challenge to Baroque aesthetics.
Author: Laurence Dreyfus
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Bach's cantatas, masses, passions, and chorales were originally performed under the composer's direction, which instruments played the basso continuo, the line that establishes the harmonic framework? This book answers this and other fundamental questions and probes the rationale behind Baroque performance conventions.
Author: David Yearsley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-11-14
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521803465
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Bach's Germany musical counterpoint was an art involving much more than the sophisticated use of advanced compositional techniques. A range of theological, cultural, social and political meanings attached themselves to the use of complex procedures such as canon and double counterpoint. This book explores the significance of Bach's counterpoint in a range of interrelated contexts: its use as a means of reflecting on death; its parallels to alchemy; its vexed status in the galant music culture of the first half of the eighteenth century; its value as a representation of political power; and its central importance in the creation of Bach's image in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Touching on a wide array of contemporary literary, philosophical, critical, and musical texts, the book includes new readings of many of Bach's late works in order to re-evaluate the status and meaning of counterpoint in Bach's work and legacy.
Author: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Published: 2012-02-27
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 1619110156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A masterful collection of 15 Bach Inventions transcribed for classic guitar solo performance. Each invention is preceded by an optional prelude. the original score is also shown for each invention. A companion recording is available online. A wonderful addition to the performance library of any guitarist!
Author: Jeremy S. Begbie
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2011-01-10
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 0802862772
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Resonant Witness gathers together a wide, harmonious chorus of voices from across the musical and theological spectrum to show that music and theology can each learn much from the other and that the majesty and power of both are profoundly amplified when they do. With essays touching on J. S. Bach, Hildegard of Bingen, Martin Luther, Karl Barth, Olivier Messiaen, jazz improvisation, South African freedom songs, and more, this volume encourages musicians and theologians to pursue a more fruitful and sustained engagement with one another. What can theology do for music? Resonant Witness helps answer this question with an essential resource in the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of music and theology. Covering an impressively wide range of musical topics, from cosmos to culture and theology to worship, Jeremy Begbie and Steven Guthrie explore and map new territory with incisive contributions from the very best musicians, theologians, and philosophers. Bennett Zon Durham University This volume represents a burst of cross-disciplinary energy and insight that can be celebrated by musicians and theologians, music-lovers and God-lovers alike. John D. Witvliet (from afterword)
Author: Marjorie Wornell Engels
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2006-04-04
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 078642544X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Through a musical language involving symbols, numbers, and tonality, J.S. Bach created emotional dimension in the preludes and fugues of The Well-Tempered Clavier. This book explores the use of that musical language, revealing how Bach used harmonic design and melodic and rhythmic motivic formulas to adhere to the basic doctrine of the Theory of Affects--i.e., that one mood will govern one piece. The book examines the significance of key and the emotional dimension Bach discerned in each tonality; the symbolism of melodic and rhythmic motifs; and the symbolism of numbers. It considers the thematic and rhythmic links between a prelude and its companion fugue in each book, and between a prelude and fugue in Book One and those in the same key in Book Two. It also includes reference to other instrumental works by Bach in the same key and melodic patterns.
Author: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Published: 2012-02-27
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 1619110695
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →15 J.S. Bach two part inventions transcribed for mandolin duet. Each invention is in notation and tablature.
Author: David Ledbetter
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0300128983
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bach's Well-tempered Clavier (or the 48 Preludes and Fugues) stands at the core of baroque keyboard music and has been a model and inspiration for performers and composers ever since it was written. This invaluable guide to the 96 pieces explains Bach's various purposes in compiling the music, describes the rich traditions on which he drew, and provides commentaries for each prelude and fugue. In his text, David Ledbetter addresses the main focal points mentioned by Bach in his original 1722 title page. Drawing on Bach literature over the past three hundred years, he explores German traditions of composition types and Bach's novel expansion of them; explains Bach's instruments and innovations in keyboard technique in the general context of early eighteenth-century developments; reviews instructive and theoretical literature relating to keyboard temperaments from 1680 to 1750; and discusses Bach's pedagogical intent when composing the Well-tempered Clavier. Ledbetter's commentaries on individual preludes and fugues equip readers with the concepts necessary to make their own assessment and include information about the sources when details of notation, ornaments, and fingerings have a bearing on performance.
Author: Willard A. Palmer
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Published: 2004-11
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780739036976
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These frequently taught works are presented in a carefully researched edition thatf includes Bach's own guidelines for ornamentation. Dr. Palmer adds an excellent discussion of how the ornaments are used in each work. Suggested fingerings and interpretive suggestions appear in light gray print. The Alfred Masterwork Audio Editions conveniently combine each exceptional volume with professionally recorded audio that is sure to inspire artistic performances. Pianist Valery Lloyd-Watts studied at the Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the Royal College of Music in London. She earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin, where she studied with Paul Badura-Skoda.
Author: Theodore O. Johnson
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1982-08-02
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1461719631
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