The Masterwork in Music: Volume 1, 1925
Published on 24. November 1994
Book
Hardback
147 pages
978-0-521-45541-1 (ISBN)
Description
Volume I of this work is translated here by a team of distinguished theorists. It includes analyses of keyboard works by Bach, Scarlatti, Chopin, Beethoven and Handel and solo violin music by Bach, as well as more general essays on aspects of Schenkerian theory. Volume 2 (1926) and Volume 3 (1930) were published in 1995/6. Long awaited in English translation, this edition will also be invaluable to scholars for the editorial annotations and elucidations provided by Dr Drabkin and his translators.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
132 Printed music items
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 302 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
653 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-45541-1 (9780521455411)
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Content
1. The art of improvisation; 2. Abolish the phrasing slur; 3. The Largo of Bach's Sonata No. 3 for Solo Violin [BWV 1005]; 4. The prelude of Bach's Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin [BWV 1006]; 5. Bach: Twelve Short Preludes, No. 6 [BWV 940]; 6. Bach: Twelve Short Preludes, No. 7 [BWV 941]; 7. Bach: Twelve Short Preludes, No. 12 [BWV 942]; 8. Domenico Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata in D minor; 9. Domenico Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata in G major; 10. Chopin: Etude in E flat minor Op. 10. No. 6; 11. Chopin: Etude in G flat major, Op. 10, No. 5; 12. A Postscript to Beethoven's Opus 110; 13. Further Considerations of the Urlinie: I; 14. Elucidations; 15. Miscellanea: Thoughts on art and its relationships to the general scheme of things; Index.