Fugue in C Major: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

The Well-Tempered Clavieris an exemplary collection of twice twenty-four preludes and fugues for keyboard in which Bach exhibits his unsurpassed contrapuntal virtuosity and also the seemingly infinite types, forms, and characters that may emerge—at his hands, and at his hands alone—from the art of f...

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Hauptverfasser:	Joseph Kerman, Davitt Moroney, Karen Rosenak
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acoustical properties Acoustics Art exhibitions Art music Arts Arts participation Cadences Classical period music Compositional techniques Counterpoint Fugues High culture Music Music composition Music theory Musical forms Musical intervals Musical modulation Musical pitch Musical register Performing arts Physical sciences Physics Preludes Soprano Sound pitch Tonal harmony Tonal theory Vocal registers Western art music
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Zusammenfassung:	The Well-Tempered Clavieris an exemplary collection of twice twenty-four preludes and fugues for keyboard in which Bach exhibits his unsurpassed contrapuntal virtuosity and also the seemingly infinite types, forms, and characters that may emerge—at his hands, and at his hands alone—from the art of fugue. Some pieces are sketches for jeweled miniatures, some for vast frescos. Some are intimate and lyrical; some quiver with the intensity of passion that is equally intensely controlled; some fringe on the pedantic; and some are frankly sublime. Part of their fascination resides in the many possible attitudes from which they can