Bach and the Patterns of Invention
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: March 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780674013568
Subjects: Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750); Composers & musicians; Music/Songbooks; Music; Genres & Styles - Classical; Individual Composer & Musician; Music / Classical
First sentence: Sometime in 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach, Capellmeister to his Serene Highness the Prince of Anhalt-Cothen, inscribed the title page to a small handwritten volume of keyboard pieces which were to be understood as a Straightforward Instruction, in which amateurs of the keyboard, and especially the eager ones, are shown a clear way not only (1) of learning to play cleanly in two voices, but also, after further progress, (2) of dealing correctly and satisfactorily with three obbligato parts; at the same time not only getting good inventions, but developing the same satisfactorily, and above all arriving at a cantabile manner in playing, all the while acquiring a strong foretaste of composition.