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Form In The Preludes Of J.S. Bach's Well Tempered Clavier, Daniel E. Prindle
Form In The Preludes Of J.S. Bach's Well Tempered Clavier, Daniel E. Prindle
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation analyzes the forms of the preludes in J.S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier. The prelude originated as an improvised genre in the mid-fifteenth century. Treatises of the period gave instruction on how to improvise and eventually compose preludes and that tradition informed Bach’s compositional practice. However, an additional genre, the invention, played a similarly important role in influencing the composition of the preludes in the Well Tempered Clavier, particularly in Book II. I analyze the forms of the preludes by proposing a new method: dimensional interplay. This method examines the form of each prelude in three musical dimensions: melody, …
The Form Of The Preludes To Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suites, Daniel E. Prindle
The Form Of The Preludes To Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suites, Daniel E. Prindle
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
This thesis proposes a methodology for understanding the form of a Baroque prelude, particularly the preludes to the Six Suites for Unaccompanied Violoncello written by Johann Sebastian Bach. Four musical dimensions, tonal structure, motive, texture, and the potential implications of a piece’s genre, parse the preludes in different ways. As the features of these musical dimensions undergo either an evolution or a dramatic change over the course of each prelude, they each suggest a different form. Points of change in each dimension delineate segments in the music. When aligned, these changes create significant formal junctures and suggest an overall form …