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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leuven :
Leuven University Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Notas: | Supplement: Appendix 3: Open Score Contrapuncti 1-4. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (254 pages). |
ISBN: | 9789461661296 |