Bach's Feet: The Organ Pedals in European Culture

ISBN-13: 9781316639832 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 314 str.

David Yearsley

Opis

Yearsley explores the cultural significance of making music with hands and feet, a mode of performance unique to the organ.

Recenzje

'Part of [Yearsley's] intent in writing Bach's Feet, which is clearly a labor of love, is to reintroduce the organ into general musicological discourse, and perhaps even attract some lay readers. His book certainly deserves to succeed in its mission, and the organ, as he says, is 'ready for a comeback'.' Notes

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Inventing the organist's feet; 2. Harmonies of the feet, visions of the body; 3. Walking towards perfection: pedal solos and cycles; 4. The pedal in the cosmopolitan age of travel; 5. Treading the globe: the world-wide expansion of the German pedal ideal; 6. Bach's feet.