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Genre/Form: | masters theses theses dissertations doctoral dissertations Academic theses Criticism, interpretation, etc Thèses et écrits académiques |
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Named Person: | Johann Sebastian Bach; Johann Sebastian Bach; Friederich Erhardt Niedt; Johann Sebastian Bach; Friederich Erhardt Niedt |
Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation, Manuscript |
Document Type: | Book, Archival Material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Eric Kutz; Johann Sebastian Bach |
OCLC Number: | 49911108 |
Notes: | Typescript (photocopy). Includes abstract and autobiographical note. |
Description: | [x], 146 leaves, bound : music ; 28 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Formal and historical overview of the prelude. Definition ; History from the Greeks to Bach ; History after Bach ; Conclusion -- Improvisation's role in the prelude. Definition ; Compositional ramifications of improvisation ; The prelude as a distinct improvisational genre ; Conclusion -- Rhetoric as an organizing principle. Definition ; Ricercare and the history of rhetoric ; The composer as orator ; Peripeteia ; Rhetoric in Bach's time ; Conclusion -- Thoroughbass as a basis for composition and improvisation. The importance of thoroughbass to Bach ; Bach's use of thoroughbass in improvisational preludes ; The influence of Niedt ; The "pattern prelude" ; French manuals on improvisational preludes ; Thoroughbass reduction and source materials ; Conclusion -- The dominant pedal as a feature of thoroughbass and rhetoric -- "Heightened intensity" as organizing principle. Heightened intensity explained ; Heightened intensity in the Cello suite preludes ; Conclusion -- Specific features in Prelude five. The Fifth suite as "French" suite ; The pairing of prelude and fugue in the Fifth suite ; Conclusion -- Performance implications -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: The six Cello suite preludes -- Appendix B: Thoroughbass reductions in conjunction with the actual music -- Appendix C: Thoroughbass reductions of the six Cello suite preludes. |
Responsibility: | by Eric Kutz. |
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