A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos,
University of California Press' new open access publishing program
for monographs. Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he
wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries, in masses and
motets, in orchestral and chamber music, and even in his sonatas
for violin solo. The more intimate fugues he wrote for keyboard are
among the greatest, most influential, and best-loved works in all
of Western music. They have long been the foundation of the
keyboard repertory, played by beginning students and world-famous
virtuosi alike. In a series of elegantly written essays, eminent
musicologist Joseph Kerman discusses his favorite Bach keyboard
fugues - some of them among the best-known fugues and others much
less familiar. Kerman skillfully, at times playfully, reveals the
inner workings of these pieces, linking the form of the fugues with
their many different characters and expressive qualities, and
illuminating what makes them particularly beautiful, powerful, and
moving. These witty, insightful pieces, addressed to musical
amateurs as well as to specialists and students, are beautifully
augmented by performances made specially for this volume: Karen
Rosenak, piano, playing two preludes and fugues from
TheWell-Tempered Clavier-C Major, book 1; and B Major, book 2 - and
Davitt Moroney playing the Fughetta in C Major, BWV 952, on
clavichord; the Fugue on "Jesus Christus unser Heiland," BWV 689,
on organ; and the Fantasy and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 904, on
harpsichord.
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