Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint

This book offers new interpretations of many of Bach's late compositions which include complex musical techniques such as canon. These techniques held great significance for Bach and his contemporaries not only on account of the great skill they demanded but because of the meanings attached to them. Intricate musical devices were crucial to the Lutheran rituals of death and dying, to alchemy, to Enlightenment philosophies of stylistic change and musical progress, to musical representations of political power, and to the legacy of Bach into our own time.

Author: David Yearsley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/14/2002
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.33w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780521803465

About the Author
Yearsley, David: - David Yearsley is an assistant professor at Cornell University. His scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Early Music, Music & Letters, and the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music.Yearsley, David: - David Yearsley is an assistant professor at Cornell University. His scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Early Music, Music & Letters, and the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music.

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