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Analyzing Fugue - A Schenkerian Approach

English · Hardback

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How did Bach, Handel, and others go about improvising and composing masterful fugues, many of which remain popular and beloved to this day? What are the underlying principles that govern this most elevated musical art? This book explores the application of Heinrich Schenker's groundbreaking theory of tonal music to the field of fugue, with special reference to J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Building upon the conventional patterns of thoroughbass and counterpoint, it covers the tonal structure of subjects and answers, the tonal patterns of fugal expositions, sequences, strettos, and complete fugues. It develops a theory of subject and answer paradigms and voice-leading patterns that undergird and shape the great fugal works of the baroque era.

List of contents

Preface - Approaches to Fugal Analysis - Subject and Answer - Invertible Counterpoint - Exposition - Sequence and Episode - Stretto and Other Devices - Complete Fugue - Appendix - Bibliography - Index of Compositions.

About the author










William Renwick is Professor Emeritus of Music Theory at McMaster University. He was educated at the University of British Columbia and CUNY. As an organist he is an Associate of the American Guild of Organists and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists. He was made a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music for his scholarly contributions to the field of Gregorian Chant.

Product details

Authors William Renwick
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 28.01.2025
 
EAN 9781636672991
ISBN 978-1-63667-299-1
No. of pages 230
Dimensions 152 mm x 16 mm x 229 mm
Weight 429 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous

MUSIC / Instruction & Study / General, History: specific events & topics, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, William, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Techniques, Approach, analyzing, History of Music, Philip, Composers and songwriters, Music composition, Fugue, Dunshea, Schenkerian, Renwick

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