Bach and the Patterns of Invention / / Laurence Dreyfus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Dreyfus, Laurence,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2004
• Leto izdaje: 2022
• Jezik: English
• Fizični opis: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Izvleček: 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.
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674238282; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674238282?locatt=mode:legacy
• Dostop: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Laurence Dreyfus.

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 fundamen...