Organ Music of J. S. Bach A Background

Name: Organ Music of J. S. Bach A Background
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ISBN: 9780521379786

ISBN-10: 0521379784

ISBN-13: 9780521379786

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Authors: Peter F. Williams

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This book, first published in 1984, is the third volume of Peter Williams' important reference work, The Organ Music of J. S. Bach. In this volume, Peter Williams lays before the reader the salient points that serve as an appropriate bckground to the pieces: notes on the church services of the area in question (Thuringia - Saxony), the fitful tradition of recitals, the duties of organists, the composer's indebtedness to former and contemporary styles in music, his knowledge of organs, the relevance (often over-valued today) of theorists, details of the instruments he was acquainted with and what can be assumed about the way they were registered and played. Throughout, the author has aimed…

Book details

List price: $46.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/9/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.48" wide x 9.76" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Preface


Maps



The Music in Service and Recital



The order of services



Hymns, hymnbooks and singing



Organ chorales as preludes



Organ chorales as and with interludes



The duties of organists



Organist-trials



Recitals



The Music and its Composition



The arts of composing or improvising organ chorales



Affektenlehre, rhetoric and 'symbolism'



Figurenlehre as a background to composition



Italian influences



French influences



Niedt's and Mattheson's praeludia



Influences on the preludes and fugues: further remarks



Bicinia



The Music and its Organ



The 'Bach organ'



J. S. Bach's organ reports



Registration



Organo pleno



Two manuals



Temperament questions



Harpsichord questions



The Music and its Performance



Certain details of performance: articulation and legato



Fingering



Ornaments



Certain details of performance: finals, fermatas and repeats



Pedals and pedalling



Three-stave notation; Additions and corrections: Volume i; Volume II


Notes on MSS cited


List of references


Index of names


Index of BWV works cited


Title index of BWV numbers in volumes I-III