Bach and the Patterns of Invention

By Laurence Dreyfus

Book Overview

In this interpretation of the music of J.S. Bach, we gain a picture of the composer as a critic of his age. By reading Bach's music against the grain of contemporaries such as Vivaldi and Telemann, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach's approach to musical invention in a variety of genres posed a fundamental challenge to Baroque aesthetics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674060059
• ISBN13: 9780674060050
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 1.0" x 7.5"