Johann Sebastian Bach's "Art of Fugue" - Ewald Demeyere

Johann Sebastian Bach's "Art of Fugue"

Performance Practice Based on German Eighteenth-Century Theory

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
254 Seiten
2013
Leuven University Press (Verlag)
978-90-5867-940-6 (ISBN)
43,65 inkl. MwSt
This book, by a leading Bach performer, is designed to provide a practical guide to the performance of the "Art of Fugue."
A practical guide to the performance of the Art of Fugue (with separate sheet music booklet - 34 p.)
With the Art of Fugue Bach delivered a polyphonic composition for keyboard of unprecedented proportions and complexity. Notwithstanding the vast existing literature on this brilliant work, a performer does not often find answers in it to practical questions such as ‘Why is this note not flatted?' or ‘How can one make this peculiar voice-leading work during performance?' This book by a leading Bach performer is designed to fill this void and provide a practical guide to the performance of the Art of Fugue. The first part contains an overview of four important Baroque topics related to the concept and performance of the Art of Fugue (rhetoric, metre, syntax, and keyboard technique). The second part basically demonstrates, with reference to the first four Contrapuncti, how the background presented in the first part often enables possible explanations for both text-critical and conceptual issues to be formulated. The final purpose is to achieve as eloquent a performance as possible of these pieces.

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Ewald Demeyere (www.ewalddemeyere.be) is a harpsichordist, conductor, theorist and Professor at the Royal Conservatory Antwerp.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
PART ONE
1. On Musical Rhetoric
2. On Metre
3. On Articulation, Fingering, Technique and Gradation of Tone
4. On Voice-leading
PART TWO 175
1. On Contrapunctus 1
2. On Contrapunctus 2
3. On Contrapunctus 3
4. On Contrapunctus 4
APPENDIX 1: Glossary
APPENDIX 2: Musical-Rhetorical Figures
APPENDIX 3: Open Score Contrapuncti 1-4
Select bibliography
Index

Verlagsort Leuven
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 239 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-10 90-5867-940-3 / 9058679403
ISBN-13 978-90-5867-940-6 / 9789058679406
Zustand Neuware
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