The Art of Fugue
Subtitle: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: July 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780520243583
Subjects: Keyboard instruments; Instruction & Study - Theory; Fugue; Music/Songbooks; Musical Instruments - Keyboard; Music; Keyboard music; Genres & Styles - Classical; Music / General; Bach, Johann Sebastian,; 1685-1750; 1685-1750
First sentence: The Well-Tempered Clavier is an exemplary collection of twice twenty-four preludes and fugues for keyboard in which Bach exhibits his unsurpassed contrapuntal virtuosity and also the seemingly infinite types, forms, and characters that may emerge-at his hands, and at his hands alone-from the art of fugue.
Description: "In a series of essays, musicologist Joseph Kerman discusses his favorite Bach keyboard fugues - some of them among the best-known fugues and others much less familiar. Kerman reveals the inner workings of these pieces, linking the form of the fugues with their many different characters and expressive qualities, and illuminating what makes them particularly beautiful, powerful, and moving." "These pieces, addressed to musical amateurs as well as to specialists and students, are augmented by a CD with new performances made specially for this volume. In addition to complete scores for all the music discussed in the book, the CD features Karen Rosenak, piano, playing two preludes and fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier - C Major, book I; and B Major, book 2 - and recordings by Davitt Moroney of the Fughetta in C Major, BWV 952, on clavichord; the Fugue on "Jesus Christus unser Heiland," BWV 689, on organ; and the Fantasy and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 904, on harpsichord."--BOOK JACKET.