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Oxford Composer Companion: J.S. Bach

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This superb reference work on Johann Sebastian Bach is the first volume in a new species of Oxford Companion that will focus on major composers.
Illustrated with twenty-four black-and-white plates, this volume boasts over a thousand alphabetically arranged entries that cover Bach's music, his life and times, scholarship on Bach, and the performance of his music. Readers will find entries on the various genres that Bach worked in
, his many individual works , places important to his career , and important contemporaries . There are also entries on instruments , Bach performance practice, stylistic influences on his work, and other biographical details. The book concludes with
a family tree, a chronology of Bach's life, a list of his works, and a glossary of terms.
Bach was one of the giants of classical music, a composer of astonishing powers of invention. In The Oxford Composer Companion: J.S. Bach, music aficionados will have at their fingertips a treasure chest of information on this major figure

Language: English

Pages: 656

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: June 17, 1999

ISBN: 0198662084

ISBN 13: 9780198662082

Oxford Composer Companion: J.S. Bach

4.3/5 ( ratings)

This superb reference work on Johann Sebastian Bach is the first volume in a new species of Oxford Companion that will focus on major composers.
Illustrated with twenty-four black-and-white plates, this volume boasts over a thousand alphabetically arranged entries that cover Bach's music, his life and times, scholarship on Bach, and the performance of his music. Readers will find entries on the various genres that Bach worked in
, his many individual works , places important to his career , and important contemporaries . There are also entries on instruments , Bach performance practice, stylistic influences on his work, and other biographical details. The book concludes with
a family tree, a chronology of Bach's life, a list of his works, and a glossary of terms.
Bach was one of the giants of classical music, a composer of astonishing powers of invention. In The Oxford Composer Companion: J.S. Bach, music aficionados will have at their fingertips a treasure chest of information on this major figure

Language: English

Pages: 656

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: June 17, 1999

ISBN: 0198662084

ISBN 13: 9780198662082

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