The Study of Fugue
Title | The Study of Fugue PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Mann |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2012-11-20 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0486171345 |
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.
The Study of Fugue
Title | The Study of Fugue PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Mann |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 1987-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0486254399 |
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.
The Study of Fugue
Title | The Study of Fugue PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Mann |
Publisher | W. W. Norton |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Fugue |
ISBN |
Features a historical survey of writings on the fugue from the Renaissance to the present as well as 4 18th-century studies: works by J. J. Fux, W. F. Marpurg, more. Includes introductions, commentary, and 255 musical examples.
Study of Counterpoint
Title | Study of Counterpoint PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Fux |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780393002775 |
The most celebrated book on counterpoint is Fux's great theoretical work GRADUS AD PARNASSUM. Since its appearance in 1725, it has been used by and has directly influenced the work of many of the great composers, including J.S. Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven. Originally written in Latin, this work has been translated in to the principal European languages. The present translation by Alfred Mann is the first faithful rendering in English, presenting the essence of Fux's teachings.
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 |
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.
Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach
Title | Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Walker |
Publisher | University Rochester Press |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781580461504 |
An analysis of the history and methodology of the pre-Bach baroque 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 |
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.