基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1998. An analysis of the history and methodology of the pre-Bach baroque figue. An important addition to the literature on the history of musical forms. Choice.
Full Description
Few bodies of Western music are as widely respected, studied, and emulated as the fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach. Despite the esteem which Bach's contributions brought to the genre, however, the origin and early history of the fugue remain poorly understood. Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach addresses both the history and methodology of the pre-Bach fugue (from roughly 1500 to 1700), and, of greatest significance to the literature, it seeks to present a way out of the methodological dilemma of uncertainty which has plagued previous scholarly attempts by considering what musicians of the time had to say about the fugue: what it was, what it was not, how important it was, and where and how a composer should (or shouldn't) use it.
Paul Mark Walker is director of the Early Music Ensemble at the University of Virginia and an expert on the history of the fugue.
Contents
Fugue in the High Renaissance
Fugue at the End of the Renaissance, Part I: Italy and the Netherlands
Fugue at the End of the Renaissance, Part II: Germany
German Theory During the Thirty Years War: Fugue in Latin School Music Texts
Italian Influence on German Fugal Theory, 1640-1680
Instrumental Fugue and the Emergence of Fugal Structure in the Third Quarter of the Seventeenth Century
Invertible Counterpoint and the Hamburg Circle of Theorists
Fugal Theory, 1680-1710
Fugal Theory in German Lexicographic Texts
Fugal Theory, 1710-1740; Mattheson and Fux
