Bach: The Goldberg Variations

By:

Peter Williams

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Music Handbooks

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Many listeners and players are fascinated by Bach's Goldberg Variations. In this wideranging and searching study, Professor Williams, one of the leading Bach scholars of our time, helps them probe its depths and understand its uniqueness. He considers the work's historical origins, especially in relation to all Bach's Clavierübung volumes and late keyboard works, its musical agenda and its formal shape, and discusses significant performance issues. In the course of the book he poses a number of key questions. Why should such a work be written? Does the work have both a conceptual and a perceptual shape? What other music is likely to have influenced the Goldberg and to what extent is it trying to be encyclopedic? What is the canonic vocabulary? How have contemporaries or musicians from Beethoven to the present day seen this work and, above all, how has its mysterious beauty been created?

Author Biography:

Peter Williams is John Bird Professor at Cardiff University and Arts and Sciences Distinguished Chair Emeritus at Duke University. His publications include The Organ Music of J S Bach Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (Cambridge, 1980, 1984), Bach, Handel, Scarlatti 1685-1985 (Cambridge, 1985), Perspectives on Mozart Performance with R. Larry Todd (Cambridge, 1991) and The Organ in Western Culture 750-1250 (Cambridge, 1993).

Release date NZ

September 27th, 2001

Author

Peter Williams

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

23 Printed music items; 2 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

120

Series

Cambridge Music Handbooks

Dimensions

141x214x7

ISBN-13

9780521001939

Product ID

2018496

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