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The art of gigue : perspectives on genre and formula in J.S. Bach's compositional practice

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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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
Subjects
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
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