Bach's Continuo Group: Players and Practices in His Vocal Works

Dreyfus, Laurence

ISBN 10: 0674060202 / ISBN 13: 9780674060203

Published by Cambridge, MA/London : Harvard University Press, 1987

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Original yellow cloth, (full page) illustrations in b/w, musical charts, small 4to.; Spine and edges dust jacket slightly discoloured; some foxing on top.

Seller Inventory # 386096-UF21

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bach's Continuo Group: Players and Practices in His Vocal Works
• Publisher: Cambridge, MA/London : Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674060202
• ISBN 13: 9780674060203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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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.