Thorough-Bass Accompaniment According to Johann David Heinichen - Softcover

Buelow, George J.; Heinichen, Johann David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803261063 ISBN 13: 9780803261068

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1992

Synopsis

Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729) was a distinguished composer, a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, and Cappellmeister at the court of August I in Dresden. His tratise, Der General-Bass in der Composition, is one of the most comprehensive sources for the late Baroque practice of figured-bass, or thorough-bass, accompaniment. It is a fund of information about many complex problems confronting musicians in the performance and interpretation of Baroque music, including meters, embellishments, dissonance, particular complications for recitative, and use of the figured bass.

With a judicious combination of translation, interpretation, and commentary George J. Buelow makes Heinichen's famous treatise accessible for contemporary scholars and performers. Buelow provides translations of key sections of the treatise, explains its historical significance, clarifies Heinichen's obscurities, and relates the treatise to other musical theories and practices of the Baroque, including those of Gasparini, Mattheson, and the Bachs. Buelow, one of the world's premier experts on Baroque music, is a professor of musicology at Indiana University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0803261063
• ISBN 13: 9780803261068
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 462