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Title: Fugue and Fugato in Rococo and Classical Chamber Music
Description: Durham [NC], Duke University Press, 1979. orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. 24x16cm, xxvii,383,(9)p, Revised and expanded second edition : translated from the German edition by Margaret Bent and the author".. 9pp plates.. ISBN: 0822304163. Minor wear. Some small chips to dustwrapper. VG. ¶ Contents: Part one : Rococo -- The composers. Vienna ; Italy ; England ; North Germany ; Palatinate ; Summary ; Pedagogical genealogy -- Circumstances of performance. Church and chamber ; Instrumentation -- Genres of composition. The church sonata ; The neutral sonata ; The partita ; The introductions to fugues in sonatas and partitas ; Dual versions ; The Italian sinfonia ; Finis coronat opus : the fugal finale ; The "framed" fugue (Sonnleithner) ; Sequence of movements -- Fugal movements. The exposition ; Bass accompaniment ; Exposition in stretto ; Double fugue ; Connection of entries ; Answer ; Countersubject ; Redundant entries ; Continuation and conclusion ; Subject entries ; Episodes ; " Reprise" ; Stretto ; Counterpoint ; Dynamics ; Summary ; Fugal Movements in Binary Form (Fugato) ; Fugal Movements in Disguised Binary Form (Gallo) -- Fugue subjects. Head motive, expansion, and cadence ; Rhythmic diminution ; Pathotype ; Cadence with trill on long penultimate note ; Cadence with suspension ; Sequential Subjects ; Types of sequences ; Chains of thirds ; Fourth- and fifth-step melodies ; Scale-themes ; Chains of suspensions, species counterpoint ; Chromatic themes ; Subjects of vocal and instrumental type ; Whole notes with suspensions ; Instrumental style ; Meter ; Repeated notes ; Disjunct motion ; Modern subjects ; Periodic phrase structure ; Motivic repetition ; Summary -- Part two : Classic -- Joseph Haydn. Studies, knowledge of older music ; Baryton trios ; String Quartets ; Canonic Menuets ; Summary -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Keywords: 0822304163 Musicology, Rococo, Classical, Chamber Music, Musical History, , , ,

Price: US$ 69.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS029641I