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Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint

Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint

Yearsley, David Gaynor

Hardcover

Series: New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, Book 10

Classical MusicMusic ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 0521803462
ISBN13: 9780521803465
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 14 2002
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.33 Depth: 9.05
Language: English
This book offers new interpretations of many of Bach's late compositions which include complex musical techniques such as canon. These techniques held great significance for Bach and his contemporaries not only on account of the great skill they demanded but because of the meanings attached to them. Intricate musical devices were crucial to the Lutheran rituals of death and dying, to alchemy, to Enlightenment philosophies of stylistic change and musical progress, to musical representations of political power, and to the legacy of Bach into our own time.

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