Bach
The Goldberg Variations (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
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Publication
2001-10-29 - Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Word Count
29,500 words, Guess
Page Count
118 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebachgoldbergvari00will
- Internet Archivebachgoldbergvari0000will
- ISBN-100521001935
- ISBN-139780521001939
- LibraryThing1635210
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- Library of Congress Control Number2001025616
- OCLC Control Number46456360
- Better World Books9780521001939
- Open LibraryOL7712587M
Classifications
- LCCMT145.B14 W55 2001
Description
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 Clavier¸bung 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?
First Sentence
Quite what the implications of the curiously unprepossessing term 'Keyboard Practice' are is less clear than one might suppose.
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- Bach: The Goldberg Variations (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
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