Heinrich Schenker
Heinrich Schenker

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Publisher: Pendragon Press

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780918728999

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Originally published in 1966, the Reeseschrift remains one of the most significant collections of musicological writings ever assembled. Its fifty-six essays, written by some of the greatest scholars of our time, range chronologically from antiquity to the 17thcentury and geographically from Byzantium to the British Isles. They deal with questions of history, style, form, texture, notation, and performance practice.

José de Torres's Treatise of 1736
José de Torres's Treatise of 1736

Author: Joseph de Torres

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780253213853

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This work was the first in Spain to deal specifically and completely with thorough bass accompaniment at the keyboard. This bilingual edition presents a readily legible transcription of the full Spanish text of the 1736 edition with the original pagination.

Jan Dismas Zelenka
Jan Dismas Zelenka

Author: Janice B. Stockigt

Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780198166221

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Jan Dismas Zelenka, the brilliant but elusive contemporary of Bach, musically served the Catholic chapel of the dazzling Dresden court during the first half of the eighteenth century. Research has uncovered biographical information, and reveals the remarkable music of a major figure of the Baroque era.

Thorough-bass Accompaniment According to Johann David Heinichen
Thorough-bass Accompaniment According to Johann David Heinichen

Author: George J. Buelow

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1966-01-01

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780803261068

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Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729) was a distinguished composer, a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, and Cappellmeister at the court of August I in Dresden. His tratise, Der General-Bass in der Composition, is one of the most comprehensive sources for the late Baroque practice of figured-bass, or thorough-bass, accompaniment. It is a fund of information about many complex problems confronting musicians in the performance and interpretation of Baroque music, including meters, embellishments, dissonance, particular complications for recitative, and use of the figured bass. With a judicious combination of translation, interpretation, and commentary George J. Buelow makes Heinichen's famous treatise accessible for contemporary scholars and performers. Buelow provides translations of key sections of the treatise, explains its historical significance, clarifies Heinichen's obscurities, and relates the treatise to other musical theories and practices of the Baroque, including those of Gasparini, Mattheson, and the Bachs. Buelow, one of the world's premier experts on Baroque music, is a professor of musicology at Indiana University.