David Yearsley

Bach's Feet

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Yearsley explores the cultural significance of making music with hands and feet, a mode of performance unique to the organ.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9781316639832
• ISBN-10: 1316639835
• Artikelnr.: 47375453

Autorenporträt

David Yearsley is the author of Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint (Cambridge, 2002) as well as numerous essays on European musical culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; his scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music and Letters, Early Music and Eighteenth-Century Music. Active as a performer on organ and other keyboard instruments, his recordings are available on the Loft and Musica Omnia labels. Yearsley has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellow at Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden. A long-time member of the pioneering synthesizer trio Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, he is Professor of Music at Cornell University, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Inventing the organist's feet
2. Harmonies of the feet, visions of the body
3. Walking towards perfection: pedal solos and cycles
4. The pedal in the cosmopolitan age of travel
5. Treading the globe: the world-wide expansion of the German pedal ideal
6. Bach's feet.