| #1107839 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2004-03-01 | 2004-02-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .77 x7.00 x9.98l,1.11 | File Name: 0674013565 | 288 pages | Harvard University Press
||111 of 115 people found the following review helpful.| The Human Bach|By A Customer|J. S. Bach would have been astounded by the amount of materialwritten on him since his death 250 years ago. And as the number ofbooks and articles on his life and works passes the 15,000 mark it becomes increasingly difficult to discover from among this morass the truly rewarding and insightful writing on 's Composer of the Millenium. But ther||[Bach and Patterns of Invention] stands head and shoulders above anything else in the field of post-war Bach criticism....Dreyfus believes that the human side of the compositional process is what must interest us about Bach, the sense of an intelligenc
In this major new interpretation of the music of J. S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique 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.
"Invention"--the word Bach and his contemporaries used for the musical idea that is behind or t...
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