| Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint Contributor(s): Yearsley, David Gaynor (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521803462 ISBN-13: 9780521803465 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2002 Annotation: This book offers new interpretations of many of Bach's late compositions which include complex musical techniques such as canon. These techniques held great significance for Bach and his contemporaries not only on account of the great skill they demanded but because of the meanings attached to them. Intricate musical devices were crucial to the Lutheran rituals of death and dying, to alchemy, to Enlightenment philosophies of stylistic change and musical progress, to musical representations of political power, and to the legacy of Bach into our own time. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Classical - Music | History & Criticism - General - Music | Instruction & Study - Theory |
| Dewey: 781.286 |
| LCCN: 2001052620 |
| Series: New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.33" W x 9.05" (1.31 lbs) 276 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Yearsley, David: - David Yearsley is an assistant professor at Cornell University. His scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Early Music, Music & Letters, and the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music. |