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Paperback / softback. New. Bach's spectacular Goldberg Variations represent a high point in the whole repertory of keyboard music, particularly for the harpsichord. This book takes a detailed look at their historical origins, what their exceptionally intricate plan is, what kind of impact they have had, and how their mysterious beauty has been created.
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Many listeners and players are fascinated by Bach's Goldberg Variations. In this wideranging and searching study, Professor Williams, one of the leading Bach scholars of our time, helps them probe its depths and understand its uniqueness. He considers the work's historical origins, especially in relation to all Bach's Clavier¸bung volumes and late keyboard works, its musical agenda and its formal shape, and discusses significant performance issues. In the course of the book he poses a number of key questions. Why should such a work be written? Does the work have both a conceptual and a perceptual shape? What other music is likely to have influenced the Goldberg and to what extent is it trying to be encyclopedic? What is the canonic vocabulary? How have contemporaries or musicians from Beethoven to the present day seen this work and, above all, how has its mysterious beauty been created?
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- Title Bach: The Goldberg Variations
- Author Peter Williams
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 120
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, New York, NY
- Date 2001-10-29
- ISBN 9780521001939 / 0521001935
- Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 5.54 x 0.27 in (21.44 x 14.07 x 0.69 cm)
- Reading level 1580
- Library of Congress subjects Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001025616
- Dewey Decimal Code 786.418
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