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 that generates a
composition--emerges as an invaluable key in Dreyfus's analysis.
Looking at important pieces in a range of genres, including
concertos, sonatas, fugues, and vocal works, he focuses on the
fascinating construction of the invention, the core musical
subject, and then shows how Bach disposes, elaborates, and
decorates it in structuring his composition. "Bach and the Patterns
of Invention" brings us fresh understanding of Bach's working
methods, and how they differed from those of the other leading
composers of his day. We also learn here about Bach's unusual
appropriations of French and Italian styles--and about the
elevation of various genres far above their conventional
status.
Challenging the restrictive lenses commonly encountered in both
historical musicology and theoretical analysis, Dreyfus
provocatively suggests an approach to Bach that understands him as
an eighteenth-century thinker and at the same time as a composer
whose music continues to speak to us today.
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