C.P.E. Bach

Contents: Introduction. Part I The Composer and his Works: Appreciating the music of C.P.E. Bach today, Miklos Spanyi; C.Ph.E. Bach und das redende Prinzip in der Musik, Arnold Schering; Like father, like son? Emanuel Bach and the writing of biography, Mary Oleskiewicz; C.P.E. Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann und die Osterkantate 'Gott hat den Herrn auferwecket' Wq 244, Peter Wollny; C.P.E. Bach as a publisher of his own works, Stephen L. Clark; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bachs Umarbeitungen seiner Claviersonaten, Darrell M. Berg; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the restless composer, Rachel Wade. Part II Individual Compositions and their Sources: Two notes on C.P.E. Bach, John A. Parkinson and Rodney Baldwyn; The 'Hamlet' fantasy and the literary element in C.P.E. Bach's music, Eugene Helm; Toward a comprehensive C.P.E. Bach chronology: Schrift-Chronologie and the issue of Bach's 'late hand', Pamela Fox; Untitled introductions to two audio CDs containing recordings of Bach's keyboard concertos and ensemble sonatinas, Jane Stevens; Picturing the moment in sound: C.P.E. Bach and the musical portrait, Annette Richards; A new look at C.P.E. Bach's musical jokes, Susan Wollenberg; C.P.E. Bach's evangelist, Johann Heinrich Michel, Paul Corneilson; C.P.E. Bach's unknown late collections of songs, Christoph Wolff; Reason and revelation in C.P.E. Bach's resurrection oratorio, Richard Will. Part III The Versuch and other Writings: C.P.E. Bach's Versuch and its context in 18th-century thorough-bass pedagogy, Thomas Christensen; Modulation in C.P.E. Bach's Versuch, William J. Mitchell; The new modulation of the 1770s: C.P.E. Bach in theory, criticism, and practice, Richard Kramer; Die Kunst der Improvisation, Heinrich Schenker; Nichelmann contra C.Ph.E. Bach: Harmonic Theory and Musical Politics at the Court of Frederick the Great, Thomas Christensen. Part IV Performance and Reception: 'Our old great favourite': Burney, Bach, and the Bachists, Christopher Hogwood; When did the clavichord become C.P.E. Bach's favourite instrument? An inquiry into expression, style, and medium in 18th-century keyboard music, David Schulenberg; Performer's remarks' for four audio CDs containing recordings of Bach's keyboard concertos and ensemble sonatinas, Miklos Spanyi. Name index.