Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2020-07-10
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Piano Publisher: Roisber Narvaez Urtext Edition Medium: Softcover Piano Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: Elena Presser
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9780916203092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-09-27
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780521001939
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Many listeners and players are fascinated by Bach's Goldberg Variations. In this wideranging and searching study, Professor Williams, one of the leading Bach scholars of our time, helps them probe its depths and understand its uniqueness. He considers the work's historical origins, especially in relation to all Bach's Clavierübung volumes and late keyboard works, its musical agenda and its formal shape, and discusses significant performance issues. In the course of the book he poses a number of key questions. Why should such a work be written? Does the work have both a conceptual and a perceptual shape? What other music is likely to have influenced the Goldberg and to what extent is it trying to be encyclopedic? What is the canonic vocabulary? How have contemporaries or musicians from Beethoven to the present day seen this work and, above all, how has its mysterious beauty been created?
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher: Alfred Music
Published: 1999-08-26
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781457487590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A quintent for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Author: Charles Rosen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780393302196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Nobody writes better about music .... again and again, unerring insight into just the features that make the music special and fine."--The New York Review of Books
Author: Gary Tomlinson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780226807928
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a form of universal knowledge through renewed interest in two ancient themes: the Pythagorean and Platonic "harmony of the celestial spheres" and the legendary effects of the music of bards like Orpheus, Arion, and David. In this climate, Renaissance philosophers drew many new and provocative connections between music and the occult sciences. In Music in Renaissance Magic, Gary Tomlinson describes some of these connections and offers a fresh view of the development of early modern thought in Italy. Raising issues essential to postmodern historiography—issues of cultural distance and our relationship to the others who inhabit our constructions of the past —Tomlinson provides a rich store of ideas for students of early modern culture, for musicologists, and for historians of philosophy, science, and religion. "A scholarly step toward a goal that many composers have aimed for: to rescue the idea of New Age Music—that music can promote spiritual well-being—from the New Ageists who have reduced it to a level of sonic wallpaper."—Kyle Gann, Village Voice "An exemplary piece of musical and intellectual history, of interest to all students of the Renaissance as well as musicologists. . . . The author deserves congratulations for introducing this new approach to the study of Renaissance music."—Peter Burke, NOTES "Gary Tomlinson's Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others examines the 'otherness' of magical cosmology. . . . [A] passionate, eloquently melancholy, and important book."—Anne Lake Prescott, Studies in English Literature
Author: Mike Edison
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2009-05-12
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780865479036
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