Bach's Well-tempered clavier : the 48 preludes and fugues /
Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" (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 guide to the 96 pieces explains Bach's various purposes in compiling the musi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2002]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. The 1722 title page ; Genesis and sources
- Part one : Concepts
- Clavier. Clavier ; Harpsichord ; Clavichord ; Spinet ; Organ ; Lautenwerk ; Pianoforte
- Well-tempered. The background to Bach's tunings ; Bach and tuning to 1722 ; Bach and tuning to c. 1740
- Preludes. The prelude and fugue as a genre ; Book I (Prelude traditions; The traditional sectional praeludium; Figuration preludes; The invention principle; Sonata, dance and ritornello principles; Other types) ; Book II (Types in common with Book I; Newer types)
- Fugues. Definition ; The theoretical background ; Bach and the term fugue ; Rhetoric ; Expression and character ; Stile antico ; Types of invertible counterpoint ; Genera of counterpoint ; Verset fugues ; Partimenti ; The concerto principle
- All the tones and semitones. Circles and labyrinths ; Key integreity ; Ut Re Mi ; Solmisation and the heavenly harmony
- Bach as a teacher. Bach's educational tradition ; Bach's teaching programme ; Keyboard technique ; Composition
- Part Two : Commentaries
- Book I
- Book II
- Appendix A : examples 7.30, 8.9, 8.21
- Appendix B ; The problem of temperament.