Bachanalia: The Essential Listener's Guide to Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier

Eric Lewin Altschuler

ISBN 10: 0316035297 ISBN 13: 9780316035293

Published by Little Brown & Co, 1994

Language: English

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Bachanalia: The Essential Listener's Guide to Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier

Publisher

Little Brown & Co

Publication Date

1994

Language

English

ISBN 10

0316035297

ISBN 13

9780316035293

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Very Good

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By applying what Stephen Jay Gould describes in his preface as a "Bill James" style of statistical analysis of baseball teams to the 48 fugues and preludes in Bach's composition for the harpsichord, the author has created a unique listening guide to this musical composition. Altschuler's essays - one for each fugue in the Well-Tempered Clavier - are full of playful, often ingenuous analogies (to baseball teams, horror movies, chocolate chip cookies and sex) that render sophisticated musical concepts with clarity to listeners with little, or no, musical training.

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