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Bach, the Goldberg variations /
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, especia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | Cambridge music handbooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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?--Publisher description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 112 pages) : music |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-109) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511606007 0511606001 0511019394 9780511019395 0511029160 9780511029165 9780511044458 0511044453 0511154550 9780511154553 128041930X 9781280419300 9786610419302 6610419302 0511174594 9780511174599 0511328435 9780511328435 1107124514 9781107124516 |