Allegro and Minuet

Allegro and Minuet

Author: Ludwig van Beethoven

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9781457472343

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A woodwind duet for two Flutes, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven.


On Playing the Flute

On Playing the Flute

Author: Johann Joachim Quantz

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2001-03

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9781555534738

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Originally published in 1752, this is a new paperback edition of the classic treatise on 18th-century musical thought, performance practice, and style


The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume II: 1717-1750

The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume II: 1717-1750

Author: Richard D. P. Jones

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2013-10-17

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0191503843

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This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Taking into account the vast increase in our knowledge of the composer due to the Bach scholarship of the last sixty years, Richard Jones presents a vivid and in some respects radically new picture of his creative development during the Cöthen (1717-23) and Leipzig years (1723-50). The approach is, as far as possible, chronological and analytical, but the author has also tried to make the book readable so that it may be accessible to music lovers and amateur performers as well as to students, scholars, and professional musicians. There are many good biographies of Bach, but this is the first, fully-comprehensive, in-depth study of his music making it indispensable for those who want to study specific pieces or learn how he developed as a composer.


Engaging Bach

Engaging Bach

Author: Matthew Dirst

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-03-29

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1107376289

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More than any other part of Bach's output, his keyboard works conveyed the essence of his inimitable art to generations of admirers. The varied responses to this repertory - in scholarly and popular writing, public lectures, musical composition and transcription, performances and editions - ensured its place in the canon and broadened its creator's appeal. The early reception of Bach's keyboard music also continues to affect how we understand and value it, though we rarely recognize that historical continuity. Here, Matthew Dirst investigates how Bach's music intersects with cultural, social and music history, focusing on a repertory which is often overshadowed in scholarly and popular literature on Bach reception. Organized around the most productive ideas generated by Bach's keyboard works from his own day to the middle of the nineteenth century, this study shows how Bach's remarkable and long-lasting legacy took shape amid critical changes in European musical thought and practice.