Dorene Groocock

Fugal Composition (eBook, PDF)

A Guide to the Study of Bach's '48'

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Eminently readable despite the complexity of its subject, Fugal Composition: A Guide to the Study of Bach's 48 guides the reader in studying the 48 fugues of the composer's Well-Tempered Clavier. Author Joseph Groocock analyzes each of the fugues individually, both verbally and diagrammatically, and includes such elements as overall structure, episodes, stretto, subsidiary subjects, and countersubjects. The appendices and index furnish a ready reference for the scholar or researcher seeking information or guidance on specific points. Meanwhile, the volume's editor supplies comparative analyses using current and previous scholarship on every fugue-illustrating where the author supports or challenges other viewpoints. In all, the analyses contained in Fugal Composition establish the extraordinary diversity of Bach's fugal style, in such a way that readers gain a new understanding of these significant and beautiful works of music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313052422
• Artikelnr.: 54549372

Autorenporträt

JOSEPH GROOCOCK was a Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and at the Dublin Institute of Technology. An accomplished pianist and organist, conductor, and composer, Dr. Groocock died in 1997. YO TOMITA is a Reader in the School of Music at the Queen's University, Belfast.

Inhaltsangabe

Editorial Preface Introduction Fugal Style Answering a Fugue Subject
Countersubjects The Exposition A Classification of the '48' Group 1: Fugues
for Two Voices Group 2: Fugues for Three Voices without Stretto Episodes
(1) Group 3: Fugues for Three Voices with Stretto Fugues for Four Voices
(general) Group 4: Fugues for Four Voices without Stretto Group 5: Fugues
for Four Voices with Stretto Group 6: Fugues with Countersubjects After the
Exposition Group 7: Fugues with Subsidiary Subjects Group 8: Fugues for
Five Voices Episodes (2) Tonality in the '48' Conclusion Appendix A:
Episodes Appendix B: Proportions Annotated Bibliography Index