Research Catalog

Title

The art of gigue : perspectives on genre and formula in J.S. Bach's compositional practice / a dissertation presented by Rowland Moseley to the Department of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of music.

Author

Moseley, Rowland

Publication

• Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest LLC, 2014.
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hasty, Christopher, 1947-
• Kelly, Thomas Forrest
• Clark, Suzannah, 1969-
• Harvard University, degree granting institution.

Description

xviii, 376 pages : illustrations, music; 28 cm

Summary

"The objects of this study are the thirty-four gigues of J.S. Bach. This corpus of pieces represents one musician's encounter with the most engrossing dance genre of his time, and by coming to terms with this repertory I develop analytical perspectives with wide relevance to music of Europe in the early eighteenth century. The dissertation has a clear analytical focus but it also speaks to methodological issues of the relationship between theory and analysis, and the problem of reading a creative practice out of fixed works. Its main theoretical commitment is to middle-out perspectives on musical process. The dissertation's main themes are form, hypermeter, and schema. Its primary contribution to music theory lies in setting out an original position on the analysis of hypermeter, and advancing approaches to form and schema that are consistent with that position. 'Form' and 'schema' refer to compositional formulas that associate with hypermeter on the larger and smaller scales respectively, with observational windows as wide as the first half of a binary movement and as narrow as a couple of bars"--Page iii

Subject

• Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
• Jigs > Analysis, appreciation

Genre/Form

Academic theses.

Note

• "UMI Number: 3645033"--Title page verso
• "September 2014"
• Dissertation advisor: Christopher Hasty

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-376)

Call Number

JMF 19-274

OCLC

1131722591

Author

Moseley, Rowland, author.

Title

The art of gigue : perspectives on genre and formula in J.S. Bach's compositional practice / a dissertation presented by Rowland Moseley to the Department of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of music.

Publisher

Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest LLC, 2014.

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Thesis

Ph.D. Harvard University 2014

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-376)

Added Author

Hasty, Christopher, 1947- degree supervisor.

Kelly, Thomas Forrest, degree committee member.

Clark, Suzannah, 1969- degree committee member.

Harvard University, degree granting institution.

Research Call Number

JMF 19-274