...Mark Anson-Cartwright Among the many qualities that set Bach apart from his contemporaries is his manner of transforming his thematic material—most notably his fugue subjects. Bach himself believed that all good fugue writers should know how and when to change (or mutate) their subjects...

...Kara Yoo Leaman Abstract The choreography of George Balanchine has long been described as “musical.” By applying music-analytic tools to patterns in dance, this essay analyzes relationships between dance and music in Balanchine's Concerto Barocco , set to J. S. Bach's Concerto for Two Violins (BWV...

...Robert P. Morgan David W. Beach Aspects of Unity in J. S. Bach's Partitas and Suites: An Analytical Study University of Rochester Press, 2005: xiii + 92 pp. ($75.00 cloth) © 2008 by Yale University 2008 Reviews David W. Beach Aspects of Unity in J. S. Bach’s Partitas and Suites...

...Marianne Kielian-Gilbert Intensely chromatic and tonally open, Bach's chorale prelude “Das alte Jahr vergangen ist,” BWV 614, suggests different contexts of reception “as-music-analysis.” I imagine a reception of the prelude as liturgical-musical contemplation and religious experience. I construe...

...David Temperley My discussion of Bach's chorale prelude “Das alte Jahr vergangen ist” centers on its key structure: the hierarchical arrangement of keys in the piece and the relationships between them. In the course of this discussion, I make a number of observations about the nature of key...

... Friedman borrowing Bach in Gavotte (1948); Cavell borrowing Emerson versus Berio borrowing Mahler in Sinfonia (1960); and Cavell borrowing Derrida reading Austin versus Richard Beaudoin borrowing Martha Argerich reading Chopin in Étude d'un prélude IV—Black Wires (2009). Cavell's theories of the voice...

... of the piece or reset the durational clocks of the piece for proper cadential closure. Examples range from Handel’s keyboard suites and Concerti Grossi, op. 6, as well as Bach’s English Suites, to Couperin’s B-minor Passacaille and Brahms’s Capriccio, op. 76/2. Channan Willner is acquisitions librarian...

...William Renwick This essay discusses tonal ambiguity in the chorale melody “Das alte Jahr” and suggests a poetic interpretation of Bach's chorale. Expressive elements such as the passus duriusculus , the sospiro , and pervasive chromaticism are woven into a radical tonal plan that reflects...

... technique has remained on the analytical sidelines can be argued, but what is not debatable is that an understanding of this ubiquitous contrapuntal maneuver is a necessary component of an overall comprehension of tonal music. Featuring examples ranging from J. S. Bach to Puccini, this essay examines...

... of Musicology 2 : 45 –61. ______. 1988 . “C. P. E. Bach and the Early History of the Recapitulatory Tutti in North Germany.” In C. P. E. Bach Studies , ed. Stephen L. Clark. Oxford: Clarendon. Drummond, Pippa. 1980 . The German Concerto: Five Eighteenth-Century Studies . Oxford: Clarendon Press...

.... Turning then to Schenker’s analyses, I will argue that the octave lines he discovered in a number of works by J. S. Bach display a simplicity entirely appropriate for deep structural levels, while at the same time they engender strikingly diverse surface designs. Furthermore, Schenker’s analyses hint...

... followed by a stepwise “connect-the-dots” game. An example from C. P. E. Bach illustrates this point. Ex. 1 presents the first part of Bach’s Sonatine nuove, no. 4. Two inter- pretations of the melodic diminution in mm. 1–2 appear in ex. 2. In both analyses, B≤ functions as the main structural pitch...

... expresses the underlying harmony. The “leading” Zug arpeg- 209 giates the harmony; the “follower” goes along passively for the contra- puntal ride. A classic instance is found in mm. 1–19 of Bach’s C-major Prelude (WTC I), as analyzed by Schenker...

... in composition, musicianship, and musicology provided some of the perqui- sites for approaching the Schenkerian legacy appreciatively and discerningly. Schachter’s ultimate allegiances are not to Schenker but to the great compos- ers he adored: Bach, Mozart, Schubert...

...Karl Braunschweig 2003 © Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 2003 Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel. 1753-62. Versuch über die wahre Art, das Clavier zu spielen . Facs. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1957 . ____. [1753-62] 1949 . Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard...