Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations reimagined:

This text provides a detailed reception history of adaptations of Johann Sebastian Bach's Aria mit 30 Veränderungen (Goldberg Variations, BWV 988). It documents multiple ways Bach's work has appeared in arrangements, transcriptions, and re-compositions from 1800 to 2020. It examines adapta...

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Main Author: Knyt, Erinn E. ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2024
Series:Oxford scholarship online
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary:This text provides a detailed reception history of adaptations of Johann Sebastian Bach's Aria mit 30 Veränderungen (Goldberg Variations, BWV 988). It documents multiple ways Bach's work has appeared in arrangements, transcriptions, and re-compositions from 1800 to 2020. It examines adaptations for the traditional concert hall as well as for dance, theatre, cinema, literature, digital media, and visual art. Overall, the book reveals a dramatic increase in adaptations of the piece in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 343 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780197690659
DOI:10.1093/9780197690659.001.0001

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