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Bach and the patterns of invention / Laurence Dreyfus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dreyfus, Laurence, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bach, Johann Sebastian.
- Composition (Music).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- In this major new interpretation of the music of J.S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach's music "against the grain" of contemporaries, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach's approach to musical invention posed a fundamental challenge to Baroque aesthetics.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- 1 What Is an Invention?
- 2 Composing against the Grain
- 3 The Ideal Ritornello
- 4 The Status of a Genre
- 5 Matters of Kind
- 6 Figments of the Organicist Imagination
- 7 On Bach's Style
- 8 Bach as Critic of Enlightenment
- Notes
- Index of Works by Bach
- General Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780674238299
- 067423829X
- 9780674238282
- 0674238281
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