Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In eighteenth-century Germany the universal harmony of God's creation and the perfection of its proportions still held philosophical, moral and devotional significance. Reproducing proportions close to the unity (1:1) across compositions could render them beautiful, perfect and even eternal. Using the principles of her groundbreaking theory of proportional parallelism and the latest source study research, Ruth Tatlow reveals how Bach used the number of bars to create numerical perfection across his published collections, and explains why he did so. The first part of the book illustrates the wide-ranging application of belief in the unity, showing how planning a well-proportioned structure was a normal compositional procedure in Bach's time. In the second part Tatlow presents practical demonstrations of this in Bach's works, illustrating the layers of proportion that appear within a movement, a work, between two works in a collection, across a collection and between collections.

Symbolism of numbers in music. --- Bach, Johann Sebastian, --- Bach, Johann Sebastian --- Bach, Jean-Sébastien --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Bakh, Iogann Sebastian, --- Bakh, Y. S., --- Bach, Jean Sébastien, --- Bach, G. S., --- Bach, Jan Sebastian, --- Bachas, J. S., --- Bach, J. S. --- Bahs, Johans Sebatjans, --- Pa-ha, Te, --- Bakh, Ĭ. S. --- Bakh, Ĭokhan Sebastian, --- Bach, Joh. Seb. --- Bakh, Yohan Sebasṭyan, --- Bach, Iohann Sebastian, --- Bahha, J. S., --- Bahha, Yohan Sebasutian, --- Bach, I. S., --- Bach, Juan S., --- Bach, John Sebastian, --- Bach, Giovanni Sebastiano, --- באך, יוהן סבסטיאן

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book examines the nature of musical performance. In it, Dorottya Fabian explores the contributions and limitations of some of these approaches to performance, be they theoretical, cultural, historical, perceptual, or analytical. Through a detailed investigation of recent recordings of J. S. Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, she demonstrates that music performance functions as a complex dynamical system. Only by crossing disciplinary boundaries, therefore, can we put the aural experience into words. A Musicology of Performance provides a model for such a method by adopting Deleuzian concepts and various empirical and interdisciplinary procedures. Fabian provides a case study in the repertoire, while presenting new insights into the state of baroque performance practice at the turn of the twenty-first century. Through its wealth of audio examples, tables, and graphs, the book offers both a sensory and a scholarly account of musical performance. These interactive elements map the connections between historically informed and mainstream performance styles, considering them in relation to broader cultural trends, violin schools, and individual artistic trajectories. A Musicology of Performance is a must read for academics and post-graduate students and an essential reference point for the study of music performance, the early music movement, and Bach’s opus.

Sonatas (Violin) --- Violin --- Performance. --- Bach, Johann Sebastian, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Music --- Performance --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Violin playing --- Musical performance --- Performance of music --- Bakh, Iogann Sebastian, --- Bakh, Y. S., --- Bach, Jean Sébastien, --- Bach, G. S., --- Bach, Jan Sebastian, --- Bachas, J. S., --- Bach, J. S. --- Bahs, Johans Sebatjans, --- Pa-ha, Te, --- Bakh, Ĭ. S. --- Bakh, Ĭokhan Sebastian, --- Bach, Joh. Seb. --- Bakh, Yohan Sebasṭyan, --- Bach, Iohann Sebastian, --- Bahha, J. S., --- Bahha, Yohan Sebasutian, --- Bach, I. S., --- Bach, Juan S., --- Bach, John Sebastian, --- Bach, Giovanni Sebastiano, --- באך, יוהן סבסטיאן --- Violin music --- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) --- Bach, Johann Sebastian --- Bach, Jean-Sébastien