| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I. Tracing the Potsdam improvisation. Sources ; The credibility of the witness Wilhelm Friedemann ; Substitution of the theme : good or bad? -- Part II. O the reconstruction : general structure. Original edition : an enigmatic artefact ; The Musical offering studies develop, interpretations are divided ; Elements of the edition, their function and location -- Part III. Canons and the fuga canonica. The Bifolio with canons as a cover ; The sixes in J. S. Bach's music and their organizational principles ; Separately located canons ; Thematic canons in the Musical offering ; Quaerendo invenietis : an enigmatic inscription to the enigmatic canon a 2 -- Part IV. Contrapuntal and thematic duality as a formative principle in the Musical offering. Canons, Sonata sopr'il soggetto reale, the entire cycle -- Part V. Recapitulation : back to the general reconstruction. What was Bach's idea of the entire collection? ; Who prepared the engraving copy for the Bifolio D? -- Part VI. Leipzig and Potsdam : styles, expections, metaphors. The Musical offering as a metaphoric reflection of the Potsdam improvisation ; The thema regium ; New style ; Hidden inscriptions -- Part VII. Ricercar. Ricercar as a genre definition ; Ricercar as acrostic, its translation and interpretation -- Part VIII. Art as life, life as art : on interpretation. Music for performance or for contemplation? ; The Musical offering as a Baroque-era work of art ; Super task -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
J.S. Bach's Musical Offering is a broadly known and extensively studied collection of musical pieces, written in 1747 shortly after his visit to the Potsdam court of Frederick the Great. The composition, however, survived in separated sheets of different formats, and finding the logic of its organization into a cycle became a great challenge for scholars of the following centuries. Based on ground-breaking findings by Christoph Wolff, who revealed the main principles of the Musical Offering's structure, as well as those promulgated by Hans Theodor David, and more recently by G. Butler, W. Wiem |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-218) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 19, 2019) |
| Subject |
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Musikalisches Opfer.
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Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ryt︠s︡areva, M. (Marina), translator.
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| ISBN |
1527541010 |
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9781527541016 |
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