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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, …
Bach To The Future: An Exploration Of Authenticity And Baroque Performance Practice Through Bwv 131 & Bwv 111, Megan Elizabeth Halm
Bach To The Future: An Exploration Of Authenticity And Baroque Performance Practice Through Bwv 131 & Bwv 111, Megan Elizabeth Halm
Senior Projects Fall 2020
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College. An exploration of historical performance practice through J.S. Bach's cantatas BWV 131 and BWV 111.
The Design Of P200: Mensural Quantity And Proportion In The Early Version Of The Art Of Fugue, Joel Thomas Runyan
The Design Of P200: Mensural Quantity And Proportion In The Early Version Of The Art Of Fugue, Joel Thomas Runyan
Theses and Dissertations--Music
The intended structure of Bach's ostensibly unfinished Die Kunst der Fuge has been debated since the work's publication in 1751. This study examines the proportional design of an early version of the work, subsisting in the autograph manuscript (P200) of the early 1740s. As the only complete source extant, P200 and its revisions provide substantial insight into Bach's intentions for the later version of the Art of Fugue.