Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint

ISBN-13: 9780521803465 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 276 str.

David Gaynor Yearsley; Ruth Solie; Jeffrey Kallberg

Opis

This book offers new interpretations of many of Bach's late compositions which include complex musical techniques such as canon. These techniques held great significance for Bach and his contemporaries not only on account of the great skill they demanded but because of the meanings attached to them. Intricate musical devices were crucial to the Lutheran rituals of death and dying, to alchemy, to Enlightenment philosophies of stylistic change and musical progress, to musical representations of political power, and to the legacy of Bach into our own time.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

1. Vor deinen Thron and the art of dying; 2. The alchemy of Bach's Canons; 3. Bach's taste for pork and canary; 4. The autocratic regimes of A Musical Offering; 5. Bach the machine; 6. Physiognomies of Bach's counterpoint.