A Musical Offering

Author: Luis Sagasti
Publisher: Charco Press
ISBN: 1916277810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89

Book Description
A lyrical celebration of storytelling, of childhood, and of the transformative power of music. Tracing a circular course that echoes Bach’s Goldberg Variations , Luis Sagasti’s second book to appear in English takes the guise of a musical scheherazade, recounting story after story, vibrating to celestial harmonies. From the music born of the sun to the music sent into space on the Voyager mission, from Rothko to rock music, from the composers of the concentration camps to a weeping room for Argentinian conscripts in the Falklands, A Musical Offering traverses the shifting sands of fiction and history.

Rethinking J.S. Bach’s Musical Offering

Author: Anatoly Milka
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527541010
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
J.S. Bach’s Musical Offering is a broadly known and extensively studied collection of musical pieces, written in 1747 shortly after his visit to the Potsdam court of Frederick the Great. The composition, however, survived in separated sheets of different formats, and finding the logic of its organization into a cycle became a great challenge for scholars of the following centuries. Based on ground-breaking findings by Christoph Wolff, who revealed the main principles of the Musical Offering’s structure, as well as those promulgated by Hans Theodor David, and more recently by G. Butler, W. Wiemer, R. Tatlow, and many other scholars, this book develops and revises their ideas, arriving at a unique conception of the possible original structure of the Musical Offering. While the rods of the collection do not provoke disagreements among scholars, the ordering of the ten canons (including the Fuga canonica) remains mysterious in many aspects, and this text gives them a close examination. It considers their kinds (thematic and contrapuntal); textual inscriptions; the canons’ function within the cycle (as vignettes to the main pieces); and their location, among other aspects. The volume includes profuse references to historical and cultural context; court etiquette; contrapuntal techniques; the history of the ricercar; expertise in Bach’s handwriting and habits of music layout in his manuscripts; and the Baroque principles of organization in arts.

J. S. Bach's Musical Offering

Author: Hans Theodore David
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description

The Art of the Fugue

Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507537848
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Title: The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach The complete Art of the Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach, as adapted for Piano by Carl Czerny. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print or historical editions, which we clean, straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to the age of original documents, you may find occasional blemishes, damage, or skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and editing to improve the image quality, some items are not able to be repaired. A portion of each book sold is donated to small performing arts organizations to create jobs for performers and to encourage audience growth.

Music: A Mathematical Offering

Author: Dave Benson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521853877
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 426

Book Description
This book explores the interaction between music and mathematics including harmony, symmetry, digital music and perception of sound.

A Musical Offering

Author: Martin Bernstein
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9780945193838
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 784

Book Description
In the great tradition of the German Festschrift, this book brings together articles by Professor Bernstein's colleagues, friends and students to honor him on his 70th birthday. Ranging in subject from the trouv e song through esoteric aspects of Renaissance studies and authenticity in 18th-century musical sources to a lively and irreverent attack on performance practices today, the twenty essays by many of America's most distinguished scholars reflect the breadth and variety of Martin Bernstein's far-reaching interests and demonstrates the vitality and relevance of what is best in musicology today.

Bach & God

Author: Michael Marissen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190606967
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the librettos. Yet he also shows how Bach's pitches, rhythms, and tone colors can make contributions to a work's plausible meanings that go beyond setting texts in an aesthetically satisfying manner. In some of Bach's vocal repertory, the music puts a "spin" on the words in a way that turns out to be explainable as orthodox Lutheran in its orientation. In a few of Bach's vocal works, his otherwise puzzlingly fierce musical settings serve to underscore now unrecognized or unacknowledged verbal polemics, most unsettlingly so in the case of his church cantatas that express contempt for Jews and Judaism. Finally, even Bach's secular instrumental music, particularly the late collections of "abstract" learned counterpoint, can powerfully project certain elements of traditional Lutheran theology. Bach's music is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn.

Evening in the Palace of Reason

Author: James Gaines
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007153937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Tells the story of the history-making meeting between scorned master composer Johann Sebastian Bach and Prussia's Frederick the Great.

A Musical Offering

Author: Ruth M. Buenting
Publisher: CSS Publishing
ISBN: 0788015273
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
A companion volume to Gloria: Letters From Hymnwriters, providing brief commentary for each church season, creative letters from the writers of traditional hymns, suggested hymns for singing by the choir and congregation, and original descants for several hymns.

Bach

Author: Christoph Wolff
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674059269
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
More than two centuries after his lifetime, J. S. Bach's work continues to set musical standards. Noted Bach scholar Christoph Wolff offers new perspectives on the composer's life and remarkable career.