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.
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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.
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First printing. Chapters include organ and harpsichord, recitatives, bassoon, string instruments. There are facsimiles of the original music, plus appendixes serving as an informal catalog, for example, performance parts for the vocal works. --264 pages, 7.5x10.5 inches. Hardcover. Condition: very good (corners bumped) with very good dust jacket (spine lightly sunned). --Studies in the History of Music, 3. ISBN 0674060202.
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VG-/VG-(Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards and block. ) Tan cloth boards with bronze lettering; yellow dj with bw illustration; xii, 264 pp; bw illustrations, music. 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? This book answers this and other fundamental questions and probes the rationale behind Baroque performance conventions. Contents: The organ and the harpsichord.; Keyboard accompaniment in the sacred works; The harpsichord controversy; Evidence of harpsichords in churches; Harpsichord participation during Bach's tenure at Leipzig; Cembalo parts; Harpsichord parts in performances of other composers' works; Figured cammerton continuo parts; Tacet-indications in organ parts; Performance of cantatas with solo organ; Dual accompaniment as convention--; The accompaniment of recitatives.; The convention of short accompaniment in secco recitatives; Witnesses to the convention: 1711-1750; Later witnesses: 1750-1810; The convention in historical perspective; Evidence in Bach's continuo parts; Bach's recitatives and their performance--; The bassoon.; Two views of the bassoon; The original parts and the question of participation; The pitch of Bach's bassoons; Weimar parts; Leipzig parts; The bassoonist as adjunct continuo player--; The string instruments in the continuo group.; The violoncello; The problematic identity of the violone; Definitions of the German violone: 1697-1752; Case study: the Brandenburg concertos; Violone parts from Muhlhausen, Weimar, and Cothen; Leipzig violone parts; Bach's violone types; The viola da gamba; The lute; The violoncello piccolo and the viola pomposa; The bass players in perspective--; Appendix A.; Catalog of original performance parts for Bach's vocal works--; Appendix B.; Bach's continuo parts arranged by date of performance.
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Very Good- Very Good-Dust Jacket. Size: 10x7x1; Harvard University Press, 1987; First Printing with full number line. Very good-hardcover in very good-dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Front board is bowed, else only minor wear to edges/corners of pale-yellow cloth boards. Previous owner's name and date at bottom edge of front end page, otherwise interior appears free of markings. Small closed tears at top edge of rear jacket panel and edge of front flap, else wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket is very minor; jacket toned over spine; jacket arrives wrapped in protective Mylar. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges to apply for international shipping.
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The edges are stamped. A former library book from a small College with usual markings and additions; The is binding tight; the pages are clean. Very little wear. Shipping within 24 hours, with a tracking number and delivery confirmation.
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