Bach's fugal works : with an account of fugue before and after Bach / by A.E.F. Dickinson.

Author/creator Dickinson, A. E. F. author.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1956.
Descriptionix, 280 pages : illustrations, music, facsimiles ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents The nature and structure of fugue -- Organ works. Apprenticeship ; Growing mastery ; Master-works ; Leipzig -- The "Forty-eight". Exquisite miniatures ; Concentration on a subject ; Subject and episode again ; Varied concentration on a subject ; Counter-subject and second subject -- Miscellanous keyboard figures -- The art of fugue. Creative achievement ; The final struggle -- Choral fugue -- Bach's fugal craftsmanship -- Fugue before Bach -- Fugue after Bach -- Fugue in musical experience -- Appendix. A note on the London autograph.
Abstract Focusing his studies on the organ fugues, the 48, the Art of Fugues, and the choral fugues, Dickinson analyzes the polyphonic musical compositions before and after Bach.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index.
LCCN 56004087

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