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Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of Fugue : Performance Practice Based on German Eighteenth-Century Theory /

With the Art of Fugue Bach delivered a polyphonic composition for keyboard of unprecedented proportions and complexity. Notwithstanding the vast existing literature on this brilliant work, a performer does not often find answers in it to practical questions such as 'Why is this note not flatted...

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Autor principal: Demeyere, Ewald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:With the Art of Fugue Bach delivered a polyphonic composition for keyboard of unprecedented proportions and complexity. Notwithstanding the vast existing literature on this brilliant work, a performer does not often find answers in it to practical questions such as 'Why is this note not flatted?'' or 'How can one make this peculiar voice-leading work during performance?'' This book by a leading Bach performer is designed to fill this void and provide a practical guide to the performance of the Art of Fugue. The first part contains an overview of four important Baroque topics related to the con.
Notas:Supplement: Appendix 3: Open Score Contrapuncti 1-4.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (254 pages).
ISBN:9789461661296