Forty-Eight Fugues and Two Kazoo : The Essential Listener's Guide to Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier
Altschuler, Eric L.
ISBN 10: 0316035297 ISBN 13: 9780316035293
Published by Little Brown & Company, 1994
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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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Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication Date: 1994
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