Johann Sebastian Bach's Art Of Fugue : Performance Practice Based On German 18th-Century Theory.

This book provides an in-depth look at issues of performing Bach's masterwork of keyboard counterpoint. The first part of the book looks at musical rhetoric, meter, articulation, voice-leading, and more. The second part analyzes each of the first four contrapuncti. With a preface, bibliography and index. Three appendices. Music examples. Appendix 3 is a separate pamphlet consisting of open scores for the first four contrapuncti.

253, 31 p.; 23 cm.
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Language: English
ISBN: 9058679403
ISBN13: 9789058679406
UPC: 9789058679406