The Study of Fugue (Dover Books on Music)

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Forum rules Post here only items useful for reference purposes. This book should teach how many phrases tema - sottotemi are present, how to recognize them and above all in what ways the Development the B part of a Fugue is written, plus some examples. I hope to find such a book on a webshop, any language is good for my aim. Thank you all buddies. Emphasis is on Baroque practice but in a way that includes samples from later and earlier periods. It's the easiest read and the clearest overview that you can also probably find. It is also a trudge to read in terms of literary style.

For more advanced study of fugue go with this one but start with Kennan. Fuge and Invention by John Verrall.

This book is out of print, too, I think, but is a nice over-view and includes some stuff about Inventions if memory serves and covers 20th century examples of fugues from Hindemith and Bartok. This "could" be a good primer if you can find it and if you can find it used would potentially be cheaper than either Oldroyd or Kennan but Kennan is the "one" book to get if you "have" to get one even if it's spendy and save your money for other things. Or hit up a library that has these if that's possible, which is what I did until I could afford the books and wasn't a penniless college student.

The Study of Fugue

There was no Sudoku in his day, and I doubt the puzzle would have interested him. However, he fully exercised his brilliant mind by setting himself the task of writing a fugue, every day. A review of the book reads; "Eminently readable despite the complexity of its subject, this book guides the reader in studying the 48 fugues of the composer's Well-Tempered Clavier. Author Joseph Groocock analyzes each of the fugues individually, both verbally and diagrammatically, and includes such elements as overall structure, episodes, stretto, subsidiary subjects, and counter-subjects.

Meanwhile, the volume's editor supplies comparative analyses using current and previous scholarship on every fugue illustrating where the author supports or challenges other viewpoints. In all, the analyses contained here establish the extraordinary diversity of Bach's fugal style in such a way that reader and researcher alike gain a new understanding of these significant and beautiful works of music.

The book by Oldroyd, published in , Oxford, can be found on a b e b o o k as also the other more recent ones. I just ordered one, for about 20 Euros incl. Careful with abebooks to make sure they have it and keep on them about delivery. I've ordered through them and their selection can be good but they sometimes need check-ups. And yes, the prices are interesting in general, it depends.

Often better than on other sites. All the best, jorpheus. Last edited by amezcua on Tue Jul 24, Printed by Dover Publications Inc. Sample Prelude 8 in E flat minor played by Rosalyn Tureck on piano. Any guitar would melt in your hands playing that. It begins with very simple teaching examples by J J Fux with themes consisting of as few as three or four notes, and beginning with just two parts.

The Study Of Fugue

From Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus Ad Parnassum by Johann Joseph Fux and Alfred Mann It's also very valuable to analyze the Bach 2-part Inventions, which are all actual fugues in two voices showing a wide variety of techniques, and which are almost playable on the guitar the range goes down to a B below the low E string and to a high C on the 20th fret, so if you transpose a few bass notes up an octave and are willing to do some crawling around above the 12th fret, you can do it, although I wouldn't expect anyone to actually perform them.

Fugue is a procedure, not a form, and there are many curious and ingenious examples presented in the Inventions of different ways of conceiving a fugue. A very eye-opening book which includes an amazing analysis of the first invention, is Bach and the Patterns of Invention by Laurence Dreyfus Counterpoint on the guitar is a tough nut to crack. I found it to be pretty useful.

Marpurg —54 , Fundamental and Practical Ess Classic study comprises two parts. Translations of texts, introductions and critical commentary, and many musical examples. Paperback , pages. Published August 1st by Dover Publications first published February 1st To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

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The evolution of the fugue is content heavy and dry but highly rewarding, especially for a Bach enthusiast such as myself. The limitations and potential of a fugue is explored thoroughly enough for academia. The thought processes of the fugue pioneers are explained as well as criticised with periodic subjectivity.

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However I think that some of the criticism are arbitrary and could get really confusing. Perhaps I'm too ignorant of the polyphoni Essential for aspiring composers and adept listeners. Perhaps I'm too ignorant of the polyphonic discourse.

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Nonetheless I got useful information out of the book. Jan 27, Garry Bryan rated it it was amazing.

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I've had this book, in one form or another, since the age of If it had been nothing more than a translation of J. The historical survey is interesting, as well.

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