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
Title Bach's the Art of Fugue & a Companion to the Art of Fugue PDF eBook
Author Donald Francis Tovey
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 244
Release 2013-01-01
Genre Music
ISBN 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.

Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of Fugue

Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of Fugue
Title Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of Fugue PDF eBook
Author Ewald Demeyere
Publisher
Pages 254
Release 2013
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9058679403

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This book, by a leading Bach performer, is designed to provide a practical guide to the performance of the "Art of Fugue."

The Art of Fugue

The Art of Fugue
Title The Art of Fugue PDF eBook
Author Joseph Kerman
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 193
Release 2015-06-23
Genre Music
ISBN 0520962591

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries, in masses and motets, in orchestral and chamber music, and even in his sonatas for violin solo. The more intimate fugues he wrote for keyboard are among the greatest, most influential, and best-loved works in all of Western music. They have long been the foundation of the keyboard repertory, played by beginning students and world-famous virtuosi alike. In a series of elegantly written essays, eminent musicologist Joseph Kerman discusses his favorite Bach keyboard fugues—some of them among the best-known fugues and others much less familiar. Kerman skillfully, at times playfully, reveals the inner workings of these pieces, linking the form of the fugues with their many different characters and expressive qualities, and illuminating what makes them particularly beautiful, powerful, and moving. These witty, insightful pieces, addressed to musical amateurs as well as to specialists and students, are beautifully augmented by performances made specially for this volume: Karen Rosenak, piano, playing two preludes and fugues fromTheWell-Tempered Clavier—C Major, book 1; and B Major, book 2--and Davitt Moroney playing the Fughetta in C Major, BWV 952, on clavichord; the Fugue on "Jesus Christus unser Heiland," BWV 689, on organ; and the Fantasy and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 904, on harpsichord.

The Art of the Fugue

The Art of the Fugue
Title The Art of the Fugue PDF eBook
Author Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher CreateSpace
Pages 84
Release 2015-01-13
Genre Music
ISBN 9781507537848

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Title: The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach The complete Art of the Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach, as adapted for Piano by Carl Czerny. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print or historical editions, which we clean, straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to the age of original documents, you may find occasional blemishes, damage, or skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and editing to improve the image quality, some items are not able to be repaired. A portion of each book sold is donated to small performing arts organizations to create jobs for performers and to encourage audience growth.

Musikalisches Opfer

Musikalisches Opfer
Title Musikalisches Opfer PDF eBook
Author Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 194
Release 1992-01-01
Genre Music
ISBN 0486270068

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Among Bach's last instrumental compositions are two splendid works that reflect his genius for working complex contrapuntal figures into an expressive, apparently seamless musical texture. The Art of the Fugue, composed ca. 1745–50, consists of nineteen canons and fugues that progressively illustrate the rich variety and complexity of fugal writing. This edition, reproduced directly from the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel score, includes a keyboard reproduction printed directly beneath the score. A Musical Offering (1747), composed for King Frederick the Great of Prussia, comprises a three-part ricercar and a six-part ricercar for keyboard, a famous sonata for flute and violin, and a set of canons, all based on a theme devised by the King himself. Solutions of the canons and a realization of the keyboard part are included in an appendix.

Sebastian

Sebastian
Title Sebastian PDF eBook
Author Jeanette Winter
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 48
Release 1999
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780152006297

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Describes how Johann Sebastian Bach survived the sorrows of his childhood and composed the music the world has come to love.

The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach

The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach
Title The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach PDF eBook
Author David Schulenberg
Publisher Routledge
Pages 534
Release 2013-05-13
Genre Music
ISBN 1136091467

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The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach provides an introduction to and comprehensive discussion of all the music for harpsichord and other stringed keyboard instruments by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Often played today on the modern piano, these works are central not only to the Western concert repertory but to musical pedagogy and study throughout the world. Intended as both a practical guide and an interpretive study, the book consists of three introductory chapters on general matters of historical context, style, and performance practice, followed by fifteen chapters on the individual works, treated in roughly chronological order. The works discussed include all of Bach's individual keyboard compositions as well as those comprising his famous collections, such as the Well-Tempered Clavier, the English and French Suites, and the Art of Fugue.