Bach’s Continuo Group: Players and Practices in His Vocal Works (Studies in the History of Music)

Dreyfus, Laurence

ISBN 10: 067406030X / ISBN 13: 9780674060302

Published by Harvard University Press, 1990

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Clean unopened copy. Loaded with musical examples, including Bach's original scores. Fading along spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bach?s Continuo Group: Players and Practices in His Vocal Works (Studies in the History of Music)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067406030X
• ISBN 13: 9780674060302
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music

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Synopsis

When Bach’s cantatas, masses, passions, and chorales were originally performed under the composer’s direction, which instruments played the basso continuo, the line that establishes the harmonic framework? Bach’s Continuo Group answers this and other fundamental questions and probes the rationale behind Baroque performance conventions.

About the Author

Laurence Dreyfus is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College.