Bach And The Meanings Of Counterpoint

Author : David Yearsley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521803465
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint written by David Yearsley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bach's Germany musical counterpoint was an art involving much more than the sophisticated use of advanced compositional techniques. A range of theological, cultural, social and political meanings attached themselves to the use of complex procedures such as canon and double counterpoint. This book explores the significance of Bach's counterpoint in a range of interrelated contexts: its use as a means of reflecting on death; its parallels to alchemy; its vexed status in the galant music culture of the first half of the eighteenth century; its value as a representation of political power; and its central importance in the creation of Bach's image in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Touching on a wide array of contemporary literary, philosophical, critical, and musical texts, the book includes new readings of many of Bach's late works in order to re-evaluate the status and meaning of counterpoint in Bach's work and legacy.

Author : David Gaynor Yearsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint written by David Gaynor Yearsley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Lohse
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach Counterpoint written by Martin Lohse and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Bach Counterpoint - Two-part invention' is a textbook in two volumes. The aim of this book is to explain Bach's compositional methods in an accessible manner, using methods and tools specially developed for this purpose. The two-part Bach inventions are a natural starting point, and have certain clear advantages when used to illustrate Baroque contrapuntal composition; it is in two parts, its form is clear, and it contains the same compositional techniques as the fugue, such as countermelody/counterpoint, sequences and motivic development. The book develops a method of understanding and composing inventions, based on a throrough analysis and exploration of Bach's inventions. To illustrate the progression and stringency of this method, this book has been structured as an insight into the 'compositional workshop'. Through analyses and music examples, the process of creation is illustrated, and throughout the book, how and why musical decisions are made are explained. Volume I will mainly focus on the first section of the form, up to the entry of the theme in the dominant or tonic parallel tonality. While relatively short, this willprove sufficient in introducing Bach's music. The exercises in this volume include writing counterpoint to a given melody, composing a longer sequence that concludes in a cadence in the new tonality, and will also cover topics such as melodic development, rhythm, and the treatment of dissonance in the style of Bach. In Volume II, instruction in compositional development continues with the analysis and composition of complete inventions, including the first section of the form, which is covered in this volume. In this second edition, minor errors and omissions have been corrected, and the section on mediant chords has been rewritten.

Author : Martin Lohse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788787131148
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach Counterpoint: Two-part Invention I written by Martin Lohse and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Lohse
Publisher : Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium
ISBN 13 : 9788787131070
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach Counterpoint written by Martin Lohse and published by Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Bach Counterpoint - Two-part invention' is a textbook in two volumes. The aim of this book is to explain Bach's compositional methods in an accessible manner, using methods and tools specially developed for this purpose. The two-part Bach inventions are a natural starting point, and have certain clear advantages when used to illustrate Baroque contrapuntal composition; it is in two parts, its form is clear, and it contains the same compositional techniques as the fugue, such as countermelody/counterpoint, sequences and motivic development. The book develops a method of understanding and composing inventions, based on a throrough analysis and exploration of Bach's inventions. To illustrate the progression and stringency of this method, this book has been structured as an insight into the 'compositional workshop'. Through analyses and music examples, the process of creation is illustrated, and throughout the book, how and why musical decisions are made are explained. Volume I will mainly focus on the first section of the form, up to the entry of the theme in the dominant or tonic parallel tonality. While relatively short, this willprove sufficient in introducing Bach's music. The exercises in this volume include writing counterpoint to a given melody, composing a longer sequence that concludes in a cadence in the new tonality, and will also cover topics such as melodic development, rhythm, and the treatment of dissonance in the style of Bach. In Volume II, instruction in compositional development continues with the analysis and composition of complete inventions, including the first section of the form, which is covered in this volume.

Author : Thomas Benjamin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135946620
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint written by Thomas Benjamin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint is an introductory text to the analysis and composition of tonal counterpoint. Using examples from the music of J.S. Bach - the master of this style - the author takes students through a series of carefully graded, cumulative exercises that stress both analysis and writing. Benjamin covers chromaticism and fugal writing in exceptional detail. The exercises cover a wide range of formats, including error detection, linear pitch reduction, analysis and composition. The book also incorporates a 100-page anthology of scores, effective for analysis, in-class performance, and compositional models.

Author : William Reginald Pasfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Counterpoint in the Style of J.S. Bach written by William Reginald Pasfield and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Benjamin
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counterpoint in the Style of J.S. Bach written by Thomas Benjamin and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin A. Leaver
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050711
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach Perspectives, Volume 12 written by Robin A. Leaver and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Sebastian Bach was a Lutheran and much of his music was for Lutheran liturgical worship. As these insightful essays in the twelfth volume of Bach Perspectives demonstrate, he was also influenced by--and in turn influenced--different expressions of religious belief. The vocal music, especially the Christmas Oratorio, owes much to medieval Catholic mysticism, and the evolution of the B minor Mass has strong Catholic connections. In Leipzig, Catholic and Lutheran congregations sang many of the same vernacular hymns. Internal squabbles were rarely missing within Lutheranism, for example Pietists' dislike of concerted church music, especially if it employed specific dance forms. Also investigated here are broader issues such as the close affinity between Bach's cantata libretti and the hymns of Charles Wesley; and Bach's music in the context of the Jewish Enlightenment as shaped by Protestant Rationalism in Berlin. Contributors: Rebecca Cypess, Joyce L. Irwin, Robin A. Leaver, Mark Noll, Markus Rathey, Derek Stauff, and Janice B. Stockigt.

Author : Matthew Dirst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197536638
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach's Art of Fugue and Musical Offering written by Matthew Dirst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bach's Art of Fugue and Musical Offering is the first comprehensive study of two closely related masterworks of the late Baroque fugal style. The initial volume in a series of American Bach Society Guides produced in collaboration with Oxford University Press, it unpacks these famously cerebral collections as endlessly fascinating material for study and play. Intended for a general readership, this compact guide also summarizes for practitioners a considerable body of knowledge about these singular works. Bach scholar and keyboard player Matthew Dirst explains their idiosyncratic musical language in initial chapters while reviewing how both projects took shape during Bach's final decade, as he reoriented his creative energies around capstone works of various kinds. The most systematic of these, the Art of Fugue and Musical Offering reflect his lifelong fascination with learned counterpoint, as demonstrated in elaborate series of fugues and canons in both and in an unusually intricate trio sonata in the latter. Later chapters provide commentary on individual movements and groups of pieces and on the historical reception of this music, including its impact on other disciplines. Recurring themes include Bach's diligent exploration of contrapuntal types and techniques, his embrace of musical games of various sorts, and his creative assimilation of diverse musical styles"--