Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 414 pages)
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illustrations, music
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300097077
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0300178956
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0300128983
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1281729310
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9780300097078
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9780300178951
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9780300128987
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9781281729316
Inhalt:
Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" (the 48 preludes and fugues) stands at the core of baroque keyboard music and has been a model and inspiration for performers and composers ever since it was written. This guide to the 96 pieces explains Bach's various purposes in compiling the music, describes the rich traditions on which he drew, and provides commentaries for each prelude and fugue. In his text, David Ledbetter addresses the focal points mentioned by Bach in his original 1722 title page. Drawing on Bach literature over the past 300 years, he explores German traditions of composition types and Bach's novel expansion of them; explains Bach's instruments and innovations in keyboard technique in the general context of early 18th-century developments; reviews instructive and theoretical literature relating to keyboard temperaments from 1680 to 1750; and discusses Bach's pedagogical intent when composing the "Well-Tempered Clavier". Ledbetter's commentaries on individual preludes and fugues should equip readers with the concepts necessary to make their own assessment and include information about the sources when details of notation, ornaments and fingerings have a bearing on performance
Inhalt:
Introduction. The 1722 title page ; Genesis and sources -- Part one : Concepts -- Clavier. Clavier ; Harpsichord ; Clavichord ; Spinet ; Organ ; Lautenwerk ; Pianoforte -- Well-tempered. The background to Bach's tunings ; Bach and tuning to 1722 ; Bach and tuning to c. 1740 -- Preludes. The prelude and fugue as a genre ; Book I (Prelude traditions; The traditional sectional praeludium; Figuration preludes; The invention principle; Sonata, dance and ritornello principles; Other types) ; Book II (Types in common with Book I; Newer types) -- Fugues. Definition ; The theoretical background ; Bach and the term fugue ; Rhetoric ; Expression and character ; Stile antico ; Types of invertible counterpoint ; Genera of counterpoint ; Verset fugues ; Partimenti ; The concerto principle -- All the tones and semitones. Circles and labyrinths ; Key integreity ; Ut Re Mi ; Solmisation and the heavenly harmony -- Bach as a teacher. Bach's educational tradition ; Bach's teaching programme ; Keyboard technique ; Composition -- Part Two : Commentaries -- Book I -- Book II -- Appendix A : examples 7.30, 8.9, 8.21 -- Appendix B ; The problem of temperament
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ledbetter, David Bach's Well-tempered clavier New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2002
Sprache:
Englisch
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