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Fugal Composition A Guide to the Study of Bach's '48'
Joseph Groocock, Yo Tomita
ISBN: 0-313-32323-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32323-2
248 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 2/28/2003
List Price: $87.95 (UK Sterling Price: £60.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Eminently readable despite the complexity of its subject, Fugal Composition: A Guide to the Study of Bach's 48 guides the reader in studying the 48 fugues of the composer's Well-Tempered Clavier. Author Joseph Groocock analyzes each of the fugues individually, both verbally and diagrammatically, and includes such elements as overall structure, episodes, stretto, subsidiary subjects, and countersubjects. The appendices and index furnish a ready reference for the scholar or researcher seeking information or guidance on specific points.

Meanwhile, the volume's editor supplies comparative analyses using current and previous scholarship on every fugue-illustrating where the author supports or challenges other viewpoints. In all, the analyses contained in Fugal Composition establish the extraordinary diversity of Bach's fugal style, in such a way that readers gain a new understanding of these significant and beautiful works of music.
Table of Contents:
  • Editorial Preface
    Introduction
    Fugal Style
    Answering a Fugue Subject
    Countersubjects
    The Exposition
    A Classification of the '48'
    Group 1: Fugues for Two Voices
    Group 2: Fugues for Three Voices without Stretto
    Episodes (1)
    Group 3: Fugues for Three Voices with Stretto
    Fugues for Four Voices (general)
    Group 4: Fugues for Four Voices without Stretto
    Group 5: Fugues for Four Voices with Stretto
    Group 6: Fugues with Countersubjects After the Exposition
    Group 7: Fugues with Subsidiary Subjects
    Group 8: Fugues for Five Voices
    Episodes (2)
    Tonality in the '48'
    Conclusion
    Appendix A: Episodes
    Appendix B: Proportions
    Annotated Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: JOSEPH GROOCOCK was a Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and at the Dublin Institute of Technology. An accomplished pianist and organist, conductor, and composer, Dr. Groocock died in 1997.

YO TOMITA is a Reader in the School of Music at the Queen's University, Belfast.
LCC Class: 786
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