Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint

By:

David Yearsley

Format:

Hardback

Series:

New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism

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In Bach's Germany musical counterpoint was an art involving much more than the sophisticated use of advanced compositional techniques. A range of theological, cultural, social, and political meanings attached themselves to the use of complex procedures such as canon and double counterpoint. This book explores the significance of Bach's counterpoint in a range of interrelated contexts: its use as a means of reflecting on death; its parallels to alchemy; its vexed status in the galant music culture of the first half of the eighteenth century; its value as a representation of political power; and its central importance in the creation of Bach's image in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Touching on a wide array of contemporary literary, philosophical, critical, and musical texts, the book includes new readings of many of Bach's late works in order to re-evaluate the status and meaning of counterpoint in Bach's work and legacy.

Author Biography:

David Yearsley is an assistant professor at Cornell University. His scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Early Music, Music & Letters, and the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music.

Release date NZ

November 14th, 2002

Author

David Yearsley

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Illustrations

65 Printed music items; 31 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

276

Series

New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism

Dimensions

160x236x23

ISBN-13

9780521803465

Product ID

2701110

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