Bach and the Patterns of Invention

Laurence Dreyfus

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Language: English

Published by Harvard University Press, 1998

0674060059 / 9780674060050

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Second printing. Volume, measuring approximately 7.5" x 10.5", is bound in burnt orange cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book displays very light shelfwear. Previous owner's name appears at top outside corner of front flyleaf. Interior is otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear. 270 pages. "In this major new interpretation of the music of J. S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach's music "against the grain" of contemporaries such as Vivaldi and Telemann, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach's approach to musical invention in a variety of genres posed a fundamental challenge to Baroque aesthetics. "Invention"--the word Bach and his contemporaries used for the musical idea that is behind or that generates a composition--emerges as an invaluable key in Dreyfus's analysis. Looking at important pieces in a range of genres, including concertos, sonatas, fugues, and vocal works, he focuses on the fascinating construction of the invention, the core musical subject, and then shows how Bach disposes, elaborates, and decorates it in structuring his composition. Bach and the Patterns of Invention brings us fresh understanding of Bach's working methods, and how they differed from those of the other leading composers of his day. We also learn here about Bach's unusual appropriations of French and Italian styles--and about the elevation of various genres far above their conventional status. Challenging the restrictive lenses commonly encountered in both historical musicology and theoretical analysis, Dreyfus provocatively suggests an approach to Bach that understands him as an eighteenth-century thinker and at the same time as a composer whose music continues to speak to us today.".

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Title
Bach and the Patterns of Invention
Author
Laurence Dreyfus
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication year
1998
Condition
Fine
Dust jacket
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Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0674060059
ISBN 13
9780674060050

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