The Art of Fugue
Subtitle: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 14, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780520253896
Subjects: Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750); Composers & musicians; Keyboard instruments; c 1700 to c 1800; Music; Music/Songbooks; Genres & Styles - Classical; Instruction & Study - Theory; Musical Instruments - Keyboard; Music / General
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.