J.S. Bach's Musical offering
Subtitle: an eighteenth-century conundrum
By: Joel Sheveloff
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lewiston, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 609
ISBN-13: 9780773429130
Subjects: Fugue
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Two vivid personalities; title: The clash of ideologies; title: Manuscripts & editions; title: Seminal musicologists' hypotheses; title: Another secret chromatic art; title: A "right royal" sextet; title: Canon conundrum and solution; title: Recent scholarly contributions; title: Two exceptional fugues; title: An old-fashioned sonata da chiesa; title: Arte canonica resoluta; title: A canon or a cannon?; title: Bach, Mizler, their legacy and posterity; title: Tempo, phrasing, articulation and dynamics versus listeners' perceptions; title: The palindrome and Quintilian; title: A partial score and some performance suggestions; title: A coda, a reflection and a valediction.