Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: David Yearsley, David Gaynor Yearsley
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.06.2008
• EAN: 9780521803465
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80346-5
• Seiten: 276
• Abmessung: 157 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Gewicht: 603 g
• Serie: New Perspectives in Music Hist
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Musik > Allgemeines, Lexika