Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780521651608 |
| ISBN10: | 0521651603 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 202 pages |
| Size: | 253x180x14 mm |
| Weight: | 560 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 9 b/w illus. 7 tables 38 music examples |
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Category:
Engaging Bach
The Keyboard Legacy from Marpurg to Mendelssohn
Series:
Musical Performance and Reception;
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 29 March 2012
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Short description:
Matthew Dirst examines the leading role of Bach's keyboard works in the creation of his historical legacy.
Long description:
More than any other part of Bach's output, his keyboard works conveyed the essence of his inimitable art to generations of admirers. The varied responses to this repertory - in scholarly and popular writing, public lectures, musical composition and transcription, performances and editions - ensured its place in the canon and broadened its creator's appeal. The early reception of Bach's keyboard music also continues to affect how we understand and value it, though we rarely recognize that historical continuity. Here, Matthew Dirst investigates how Bach's music intersects with cultural, social and music history, focusing on a repertory which is often overshadowed in scholarly and popular literature on Bach reception. Organized around the most productive ideas generated by Bach's keyboard works from his own day to the middle of the nineteenth century, this study shows how Bach's remarkable and long-lasting legacy took shape amid critical changes in European musical thought and practice.
'Dirst, a performer himself, is a lively writer and makes many useful observations.' The Times Literary Supplement
'Dirst, a performer himself, is a lively writer and makes many useful observations.' The Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents:
1. Why the keyboard works?; 2. Inventing the Bach chorale; 3. What Mozart learned from Bach; 4. A b&&&252;rgerlicher Bach: turn-of-the-century German advocacy; 5. The virtuous fugue: English reception to 1840; 6. Bach for whom? Modes of interpretation and performance, 1820-50.
