Rethinking J.S. Bach's musical offering / by Anatoly Milka ; translated from Russian by Marina Ritzarev.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milka, Anatoly, author.

Contributor:

Ryt͡sareva, M. (Marina), translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Musikalisches Opfer.

Bach, Johann Sebastian.

Bach, Johann Sebastian,--1685-1750.--Musikalisches Opfer.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

J.S. Bach's Musical Offering is a broadly known and extensively studied collection of musical pieces, written in 1747 shortly after his visit to the Potsdam court of Frederick the Great. The composition, however, survived in separated sheets of different formats, and finding the logic of its organization into a cycle became a great challenge for scholars of the following centuries. Based on ground-breaking findings by Christoph Wolff, who revealed the main principles of the Musical Offering's structure, as well as those promulgated by Hans Theodor David, and more recently by G. Butler, W. Wiemer, R. Tatlow, and many other scholars, this book develops and revises their ideas, arriving at a unique conception of the possible original structure of the Musical Offering. While the rods of the collection do not provoke disagreements among scholars, the ordering of the ten canons (including the Fuga canonica) remains mysterious in many aspects, and this text gives them a close examination. It considers their kinds (thematic and contrapuntal); textual inscriptions; the canons' function within the cycle (as vignettes to the main pieces); and their location, among other aspects. The volume includes profuse references to historical and cultural context; court etiquette; contrapuntal techniques; the history of the ricercar; expertise in Bach's handwriting and habits of music layout in his manuscripts; and the Baroque principles of organization in arts.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Schemes

List of Musical Examples

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

Part I

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Part II

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Part III

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Part IV

Chapter Twelve

Part V

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Part VI

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Part VII

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Part VIII

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-5275-4101-0

OCLC:

1124587543