Johann Sebastian Bach's "art of Fugue": Performance Practice Based on German Eighteenth-Century Theory [With Score]

by Ewald Demeyere

With the Art of Fugue, Bach delivered a polyphonic composition for keyboard of unprecedented proportions and complexity. Notwithstanding that the existing literature on this brilliant work is vast, a performer does not often find answers to practical questions such as, "Why is this note not flatted?" or "How can one make this peculiar voice-leading work during performance?"This book, by a leading Bach performer, is designed to fill this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9058679403
• ISBN13: 9789058679406
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher