Langloz Manuscript - Fugal Improvisation Through Figured Bass

Zusatztext Four excellent introductory chapters ... The book is a valuable scholarly document, but it also has its use in the practical teaching of baroque keyboard playing Klappentext The ability to improvise a fugue is considered by many to be the summit of practical musicianship. Such skill, combining harmony, counterpoint, form, and style simultaneously, is best learned through the study of figured-bass fugue. The Langloz Manuscript, originating in the era of J.S. Bach, is the largest extant collection of figured-bass fugues. Published here for the first time, this edition of the manuscript includes detailed explanatory notes and illustrateshow the art of extemporised fugue was developed in the eighteenth century. Zusammenfassung The practical method which linked keyboard technique, improvization, performance and composition was the thoroughbass, the centre of the Baroque musician's art. This manuscript, containing a large collection of figured bass fugues, provides a window into this very process.

Product details

• Authors: William Renwick, RENWICK WILLIAM
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2001
• EAN: 9780198167297
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816729-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Early Music Series; Oxford Early Music (Hardcover); Early Music Series; Oxford Early Music (Hardcover); Early Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries