The authors' new approach to learning two playing techniques offers a systematic method for mastering the modern, legato technique needed for organ music composed arter 1750, as well as an articulated technique for earlier works. The authors also present useful information on accompanying anthems and solos and on adapting piano and orchestral ...
George Stauffer explores the music and complex history of Bach's last and possibly greatest masterpiece. Stauffer demonstrates Bach's reliance on contemporary models from the Dresden mass repertory and his brilliantly innovative methods of unifying his immense composition. Musicians, music scholars, students and music lovers should find in this ...
"The World of Baroque Music" is a collection of essays by leading scholars on Baroque music. Each focuses on a different city, court, or region, and profiles the critical developments in that location for a single genre (song, opera, keyboard music, guitar, trio sonata, etc.) and is complemented by beautiful paintings and original scores from the ...
That Johann Sebastian Bach is a pivotal figure in the history of Western music is hardly news, and the magnitude of his achievement is so immense that it can be difficult to grasp. In "About Bach", fifteen scholars show that Bach's importance extends from choral to orchestral music, from sacred music to musical parodies, and also to his scribes ...
Rutgers University from 1958 to 1972 was at the center of many new developments in the art world. Artists connected with Happenings and Fluxus created works that had a major impact in New York and abroad. A dozen years after Allan Kaprow's first Happening on Rutgers' Douglass campus in 1958, George Maciunas (Mr. Fluxus) created his major late ...
"The Greatest musical artwork for all times and all people": so Hans Georg Nageli described Johann Sebastian Bach's B-Minor Mass in 1818, and through the years the world's listeners have strongly affirmed his verdict. No other work transcends the boundaries of sacred and secular so powerfully; no other work displays Bach's powers of compositional ...
" ...a valuable book of scholarly yet highly readable studies ...every organist and anyone interested in the music of J. S. Bach should have it." -Early Keyboard Journal
Volume 2 examines the publishing activities of the Breitkopf firm as seen through its commerce with the Bach family. The volume begins with an introductory essay that surveys Breitkopf's business in Leipzig and the firm's contribution to the wider world of music publishing. The articles turn to the specific connections between the Bachs and the ...
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