J. S. Bach's Musical offering : an eighteenth-century conundrum / Joel Sheveloff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheveloff, Joel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bach, Johann Sebastian.

Fugue.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (632 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lewiston, New York ; Queenston, Ontario ; Lampeter, Wales : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A radical new level of scrutiny of Johann Sebastian Bach's Musikalisches Opfer which has been and continues to be the most controversial single composition he ever wrote and perhaps the single most mysterious and frustrating work anyone ever composed.

Contents:

J.S. Bach's Musical Offering - An Eighteenth-Century Conundrum; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Musical Examples / Charts, Diagrams, Listings; Abstract; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One - Two Vivid Personalities; Chapter Two - The Clash of Ideologies; Chapter Three - Manuscripts & Editions; Chapter Four - Seminal Musicologists' Hypotheses; Chapter Five - Another Secret Chromatic Art; Chapter Six - A ""Right Royal"" Sextet; Chapter Seven - Canon Conundrum and Solution; Chapter Eight - Recent Scholarly Contribution; Chapter Nine - Two Exceptional Fugues

Chapter Ten - An Old-Fashioned Sonata Da ChiesaChapter Eleven - Arte Canonica Resoluta; Chapter Twelve - A Canon or a Cannon?; Chapter Thirteen - Bach, Mizler, Their Legacy and Posterity; Chapter Fourteen - Tempo, Phrasing, Articulation and Dynamics versus Listeners' Perceptions; Chapter Fifteen - The Palindrome and Quintilian; Chapter Sixteen - A Partial score and Some Performance Suggestions; Chapter Seventeen - A Coda, A Reflection and A Valediction; Endnotes; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-7734-0765-0