Bach And The Meaning Of Counterpoint: 10 (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, Series Number 10) - Hardcover

Yearsley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521803462 ISBN 13: 9780521803465

Verlag: New Publisher, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Offers interpretations of many of Bach's late compositions which include complex musical techniques such as canon. These techniques had significant meanings attached to them which were crucial to, for example, the Lutheran rituals of death and Enlightenment philosophies of stylistic change and musical progress.

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Review of the hardback: '... this is a book with spaces for thought, infused with a sense of excitement about the material. it is probably the most important monograph on counterpoint in the eighteenth century to have appeared since Warren Kirkendale's tirelessly detailed Fugue and Fugato in Rococo and Classical Chamber Music.' Eighteenth-Century Music

Review of the hardback: '... the concept behind the book, its thorough and scholarly execution, and the high intellectual level of the writing, all make it an indispensable study for students of Bach's late published works.' Early Music

Biografía del autor:

David Yearsley is an assistant professor at Cornell University. His scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Early Music, Music & Letters, and the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music.

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• Verlag: New Publisher
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0521803462
• ISBN 13: 9780521803465
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276