Book Description
Complete score of The Art of Fugue plus extensive commentary features all 14 fugues plus the four canons. The commentary outlines the fugues' contrapuntal devices and offers keen observations on the composer's craftsmanship.
Author : Donald Francis Tovey
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 048649764X
Complete score of The Art of Fugue plus extensive commentary features all 14 fugues plus the four canons. The commentary outlines the fugues' contrapuntal devices and offers keen observations on the composer's craftsmanship.
Author : Matthew Dirst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Music
ISBN : 0197536638
"Bach's Art of Fugue and Musical Offering is the first comprehensive study of two closely related masterworks of the late Baroque fugal style. The initial volume in a series of American Bach Society Guides produced in collaboration with Oxford University Press, it unpacks these famously cerebral collections as endlessly fascinating material for study and play. Intended for a general readership, this compact guide also summarizes for practitioners a considerable body of knowledge about these singular works. Bach scholar and keyboard player Matthew Dirst explains their idiosyncratic musical language in initial chapters while reviewing how both projects took shape during Bach's final decade, as he reoriented his creative energies around capstone works of various kinds. The most systematic of these, the Art of Fugue and Musical Offering reflect his lifelong fascination with learned counterpoint, as demonstrated in elaborate series of fugues and canons in both and in an unusually intricate trio sonata in the latter. Later chapters provide commentary on individual movements and groups of pieces and on the historical reception of this music, including its impact on other disciplines. Recurring themes include Bach's diligent exploration of contrapuntal types and techniques, his embrace of musical games of various sorts, and his creative assimilation of diverse musical styles"--
Author : Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN :
In this text, the author develops a new interpretation of J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue, based on a profound knowledge of Baroque-era thought and intense score study. Starting with the work's celebrated BACH theme, he attempts to show that The Art of Fugue contains an assertion of the composer's deeply held faith, and that aspects of Bach's spiritual convictions permeate the entire musical fabric of the work. The author postulates that The Art of Fugue is actually a musical representation of Bach's beliefs about the God-human relationship, and argues that the Christian doctrine of "salvation by grace" is the core concept that provides the work with its expressive content in much the same way that the opening ground-theme subject acts as a basic generating source for all subsequent musical materials. Although The Art of Fugue is regarded by the musical world as one of the most significant examples of Bach's contrapuntal craft, the author convincingly argues that this work has an important spiritual dimension that goes beyond considerations of the composer's craftsmanship. He devotes this book to a lively and controversial discussion of unprovable matters; that is, to those aspects of expressive content which he believes are concealed both within and beyond the musical materials.
Author : Joseph Kerman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520287630
"Fugue for J.S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries, in masses and motets, in orchestral and chamber music, and even in his sonatas for violin solo. The more intimate fugues he wrote for keyboard are among the greatest, most infl uential, and best-loved works in all of Western music. They have long been the foundation of the keyboard repertory, played by beginning students and world-famous virtuosi alike. In a series of elegantly written essays, eminent musicologist Joseph Kerman discusses his favorite Bach keyboard fugues?some of them among the best-known fugues and others much less familiar. Kerman skillfully, at times playfully, reveals the inner workings of these pieces, linking the form of the fugues with their many different characters and expressive qualities, and illuminating what makes them particularly beautiful, powerful, and moving."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Anatoly Milka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317064054
The enigmatic character of The Art of Fugue became apparent as early as in its first edition, printed more than a year after the composer’s death. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, who published both the first and the second editions, raised several unsolved questions regarding this opus. Anatoly P Milka presents a consistent and coherent solution to the unresolved questions about the history, structure and appearance of J.S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue, opening new perspectives for further exploration of this musical masterpiece. Milka challenges the present scholarly consensus that there exist two different versions of The Art of Fugue (the Autograph and the Original Edition) and argues that Bach had considered four versions, of which only two are apparent and have been discussed so far. Only Bach’s illness and death prevented him from fulfilling his plan and publishing a fourth, conclusive version of his opus.
Author : Ewald Demeyere
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9058679403
This book, by a leading Bach performer, is designed to provide a practical guide to the performance of the "Art of Fugue."
Author : Donald Francis Tovey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
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Author : Joseph Kerman
Publisher :
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Fugue
ISBN : 9781598755428
Author : Donald Francis Tovey
Publisher : London : Oxford U.P.
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Canon (Musical form)
ISBN :
Author : Sir Donald Francis Tovey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Canon (Musical form)
ISBN :