The Art Of The Fugue

Author : Joseph Kerman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520962590

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The Art of Fugue by Joseph Kerman Pdf

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.

Author : Donald Francis Tovey,András Schiff,Eric Wen
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486497648

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Bach's the Art of Fugue & a Companion to the Art of Fugue by Donald Francis Tovey,András Schiff,Eric Wen Pdf

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.

Author : Anatoly P. Milka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317064053

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Rethinking J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue by Anatoly P. Milka Pdf

The enigmatic character of The Art of Fugue became apparent as early as in its first edition, printed more than a year after the composer’s death. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, who published both the first and the second editions, raised several unsolved questions regarding this opus. Anatoly P Milka presents a consistent and coherent solution to the unresolved questions about the history, structure and appearance of J.S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue, opening new perspectives for further exploration of this musical masterpiece. Milka challenges the present scholarly consensus that there exist two different versions of The Art of Fugue (the Autograph and the Original Edition) and argues that Bach had considered four versions, of which only two are apparent and have been discussed so far. Only Bach’s illness and death prevented him from fulfilling his plan and publishing a fourth, conclusive version of his opus.

Author : Dumitru Țepeneag
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564784215

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Vain Art of the Fugue by Dumitru Țepeneag Pdf

"The reader discovers new satisfactions with such a book. Far from the insipid savors generated by a passive fascination, the text stirs up the joys of an endless activity." Le Monde

Author : Zoltán Göncz
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810884489

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Bach's Testament by Zoltán Göncz Pdf

Written late in his life, J. S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue has long been admired—in some quarters revered—as one of his masterworks. Its last movement, Contrapunctus 14, went unfinished, and the enigma of its incompleteness still preoccupies scholars and musical conductors alike. In 1881, Gustav Nottebohm discovered that the three subjects of the movement could be supplemented by a fourth. In 1993, Zoltán Göncz revealed that Bach had planned the passage that would join the four subjects in an entirely unique way. This section has not survived, but, as Göncz notes, it must have been ready in the earliest phase of composition since Bach had created the expositions of the first three subjects from its “disjointed” parts. Göncz then boldly took on the task of reconstructing the original “template” by putting together the once separate pieces. In Bach’s Testament: On the Philosophical and Theological Background of The Art of Fugue, Göncz probes the philosophic-theological background of The Art of Fugue, revealing the special structures that supported the 1993 reconstruction. Bach’s Testament investigates the reconstruction’s metaphysical dimensions, focusing on the quadruple fugue. As a summary of Zoltán Göncz’s extensive research over many years, which resulted in the completion of the fugue, this work explores the complex combinatorial, philosophical and theological considerations that inform its structure. Bach’s Testament is ideally suited not only to Bach scholars and musicologists but also intellectual historians with particular interests in 18th-century religious and philosophical ideas.

Author : Johann Sebastian Bach,Carl Czerny
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1507537840

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The Art of the Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach,Carl Czerny Pdf

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.

Author : Alfred Mann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486171340

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The Study of Fugue by Alfred Mann Pdf

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.

Author : Ewald Demeyere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789058679406

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Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of Fugue by Ewald Demeyere Pdf

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

Author : Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004255522

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J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue by Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht Pdf

In this text, the author develops a new interpretation of J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue, based on a profound knowledge of Baroque-era thought and intense score study. Starting with the work's celebrated BACH theme, he attempts to show that The Art of Fugue contains an assertion of the composer's deeply held faith, and that aspects of Bach's spiritual convictions permeate the entire musical fabric of the work. The author postulates that The Art of Fugue is actually a musical representation of Bach's beliefs about the God-human relationship, and argues that the Christian doctrine of "salvation by grace" is the core concept that provides the work with its expressive content in much the same way that the opening ground-theme subject acts as a basic generating source for all subsequent musical materials. Although The Art of Fugue is regarded by the musical world as one of the most significant examples of Bach's contrapuntal craft, the author convincingly argues that this work has an important spiritual dimension that goes beyond considerations of the composer's craftsmanship. He devotes this book to a lively and controversial discussion of unprovable matters; that is, to those aspects of expressive content which he believes are concealed both within and beyond the musical materials.

Author : Johann Sebastian Bach,Carl Czerny
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457471744

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The Art of the Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach,Carl Czerny Pdf

The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, is an incomplete work by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was most likely started at the beginning of the 1740s, if not earlier. "The governing idea of the work", according to Christoph Wolff, is "an exploration in depth of the contrapuntal possibilities inherent in a single musical subject."

Author : Johann Sebastian Bach,Alfred Dörffel,W. Graeser
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486270067

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Musikalisches Opfer by Johann Sebastian Bach,Alfred Dörffel,W. Graeser Pdf

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.

Author : Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1053017939

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The art of the fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach Pdf

Author : Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Canons, fugues, etc. (Piano), Arranged
ISBN : CUB:U183008347210

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The Art of the Fugue (Czerny) by Johann Sebastian Bach Pdf

Author : Brian Castro
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781920882556

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The Bath Fugues by Brian Castro Pdf

From one of Australia's most lauded writers, comes a wonderfully wrought work, melding intrigue, romance, comedy and deception. A melancholy sadness which courts by never surrenders to depair. Taking the form of three interwoven novellas: the first centred on an aging art forger; the second on a Portuguese poet, opium addict and art collector, the third on a mysteriously well connected doctor who has built an art gallery in tropical Queensland. A must for all good bookstores.

Author : Carl Czerny
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1985-03
Category : Canons, fugues, etc. (Piano)
ISBN : 076924081X

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The Art of the Fugue by Carl Czerny Pdf

The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, is an incomplete work by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was most likely started at the beginning of the 1740s, if not earlier. "The governing idea of the work", according to Christoph Wolff, is "an exploration in depth of the contrapuntal possibilities inherent in a single musical subject." 83 pages.