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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, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach’s approach to musical invention posed a fundamental challenge to Baroque aesthetics.
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Bach and the patterns of invention, Laurence Dreyfus
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- Title
- Bach and the patterns of invention
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Laurence Dreyfus
- Publisher
- Harvard Univ. Press
- Publisher
- 1996
- ISBN10
- 0674060059
- ISBN13
- 9780674060050
- Category
- Music
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- 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, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach’s approach to musical invention posed a fundamental challenge to Baroque aesthetics.