J.S. Bach's Musical Offering: an Eighteenth-Century Conundrum
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Main Author: Sheveloff, Joel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewiston The Edwin Mellen Press 2013
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Item Description:J.S. Bach's Musical Offering -- An Eighteenth-Century Conundrum; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Musical Examples / Charts, Diagrams, Listings; Abstract; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One -- Two Vivid Personalities; Chapter Two -- The Clash of Ideologies; Chapter Three -- Manuscripts & Editions; Chapter Four -- Seminal Musicologists' Hypotheses; Chapter Five -- Another Secret Chromatic Art; Chapter Six -- A ""Right Royal"" Sextet; Chapter Seven -- Canon Conundrum and Solution; Chapter Eight -- Recent Scholarly Contribution; Chapter Nine -- Two Exceptional Fugues
Chapter Ten -- An Old-Fashioned Sonata Da ChiesaChapter Eleven -- Arte Canonica Resoluta; Chapter Twelve -- A Canon or a Cannon?; Chapter Thirteen -- Bach, Mizler, Their Legacy and Posterity; Chapter Fourteen -- Tempo, Phrasing, Articulation and Dynamics versus Listeners' Perceptions; Chapter Fifteen -- The Palindrome and Quintilian; Chapter Sixteen -- A Partial score and Some Performance Suggestions; Chapter Seventeen -- A Coda, A Reflection and A Valediction; Endnotes; Bibliography
A radical new level of scrutiny of Johann Sebastian Bach's Musikalisches Opfer which has been and continues to be the most controversial single composition he ever wrote and perhaps the single most mysterious and frustrating work anyone ever composed
Physical Description:632 pages
ISBN:9780773407657
0773407650
0773429131
9780773429130

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