The Technique and Spirit of Fugue

The Technique and Spirit of Fugue

Author: George Oldroyd

Publisher: London, Oxford U.P

Published: 1948

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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This book provides a more enlightened understanding of fugal writing, based on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.


The Study of Fugue

The Study of Fugue

Author: Alfred Mann

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-11-20

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0486171345

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Features a historical survey of writings on the fugue from the Renaissance to the present as well as four 18th-century studies: works by J. J. Fux, F. W. Marpurg, and more. Includes introductions, commentary, and 255 musical examples.


Sourcebook for Research in Music, Third Edition

Sourcebook for Research in Music, Third Edition

Author: Allen Scott

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 0253014565

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Since it was first published in 1993, the Sourcebook for Research in Music has become an invaluable resource in musical scholarship. The balance between depth of content and brevity of format makes it ideal for use as a textbook for students, a reference work for faculty and professional musicians, and as an aid for librarians. The introductory chapter includes a comprehensive list of bibliographical terms with definitions; bibliographic terms in German, French, and Italian; and the plan of the Library of Congress and the Dewey Decimal music classification systems. Integrating helpful commentary to instruct the reader on the scope and usefulness of specific items, this updated and expanded edition accounts for the rapid growth in new editions of standard works, in fields such as ethnomusicology, performance practice, women in music, popular music, education, business, and music technology. These enhancements to its already extensive bibliographies ensures that the Sourcebook will continue to be an indispensable reference for years to come.


Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude

Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude

Author: James Crooks

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2024-05-14

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0228020654

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Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. In Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude James Crooks explores this profound aesthetic experience in a case study of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor – widely considered among the greatest works of the western choral canon. The book begins with an investigation of compositional principles – of what we might call the mass’s musical architecture. Crooks argues that in its cathedral-like structure, Bach gives us a detailed map of the spiritual journey it triggers. This journey culminates in our apprehension of the world as a gift. And that means, in turn, that the mode of knowing appropriate to its musical ecstasy is gratitude. In the gratitude of aesthetic experience, we learn something crucial about the genuine nature of our own identity, our relations with others, and the character of the things around us. Bach’s genius lies in his capacity to frame these lessons in the mass’s choruses, solos, and duets. Spotlighting the wisdom embedded in gratitude, Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude celebrates music as a pathway to understanding our deepest selves and our intimacy with the world.


The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint

The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint

Author: Thomas Benjamin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-03

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1135946639

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Fugal Composition

Fugal Composition

Author: Dorene Groocock

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2003-02-28

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0313052425

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Eminently readable despite the complexity of its subject, Fugal Composition: A Guide to the Study of Bach's 48 guides the reader in studying the 48 fugues of the composer's Well-Tempered Clavier. Author Joseph Groocock analyzes each of the fugues individually, both verbally and diagrammatically, and includes such elements as overall structure, episodes, stretto, subsidiary subjects, and countersubjects. The appendices and index furnish a ready reference for the scholar or researcher seeking information or guidance on specific points. Meanwhile, the volume's editor supplies comparative analyses using current and previous scholarship on every fugue-illustrating where the author supports or challenges other viewpoints. In all, the analyses contained in Fugal Composition establish the extraordinary diversity of Bach's fugal style, in such a way that readers gain a new understanding of these significant and beautiful works of music.


Bach's the Art of Fugue & a Companion to the Art of Fugue

Bach's the Art of Fugue & a Companion to the Art of Fugue

Author: Donald Francis Tovey

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 048649764X

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Complete score of The Art of Fugue plus extensive commentary features all 14 fugues plus the four canons. The commentary outlines the fugues' contrapuntal devices and offers keen observations on the composer's craftsmanship.