| Bach's Keyboard Music: A Listener's Guide [With CD (Audio)] Contributor(s): Lederer, Victor (Author) |
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ISBN: 1574671820 ISBN-13: 9781574671827 Publisher: Amadeus OUR PRICE: $26.60 Product Type: Other Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Instruction & Study - Appreciation - Music | Genres & Styles - Classical - Music | Musical Instruments - General |
| Dewey: 786.092 |
| LCCN: 2010001079 |
| Series: Unlocking the Masters |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Along with Beethoven's sonatas and the purely idiomatic works for piano of Chopin and Debussy, the solo keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach represents the heart of the pianist's repertory; in the more specialized field of music for the organ, Bach's primacy seems beyond challenge. This listener's guide to Bach's music for the keyboard provides the interested amateur with a close but non-technical look at these two crucial parts of the master's oeuvre. The composer's tendency to work exhaustively in tightly structured formats - such as the 48 preludes and fugues of The Well-Tempered Clavier - provides a natural framework for this study; but the power, beauty, high polish, and occasionally the sheer strangeness of Bach's imagination are carefully examined as well. |