Title
Bach and the Patterns of Invention / Laurence Dreyfus.
ISBN
9780674238282
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2004
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (288 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674238282 doi
Call Number
ML410.B1 D63 2004eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
780.92
Summary
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, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach's approach to musical invention posed a fundamental challenge to Baroque aesthetics.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
1 What Is an Invention?
2 Composing against the Grain
3 The Ideal Ritornello
4 The Status of a Genre
5 Matters of Kind
6 Figments of the Organicist Imagination
7 On Bach's Style
8 Bach as Critic of Enlightenment
Notes
Index of Works by Bach
General Index
