Oxford Composer Companion: J.S. Bach

This superb reference work on Johann Sebastian Bach is the first volume in a new species of Oxford Companion that will focus on major composers.
Illustrated with twenty-four black-and-white plates, this volume boasts over a thousand alphabetically arranged entries that cover Bach's music, his life and times, scholarship on Bach, and the performance of his music. Readers will find entries on the various genres that Bach worked in
(including chorales, fantasia, sonata, concerto, missa), his many individual works (such as St. John's Passion, The Goldberg Variations, Brandenburg Concertos, Passacaglia, Well-Tempered Clavier, The Christmas Oratorio, and The Art of Fugue), places important to his career (such as Muhlhausen,
Weimar, and Leipzig), and important contemporaries (Handel, Rameau, Vivaldi, Telemann, among others). There are also entries on instruments (harpsichord, organ, clavier, and so on), Bach performance practice, stylistic influences on his work, and other biographical details. The book concludes with
a family tree, a chronology of Bach's life, a list of his works, and a glossary of terms.
Bach was one of the giants of classical music, a composer of astonishing powers of invention. In The Oxford Composer Companion: J.S. Bach, music aficionados will have at their fingertips a treasure chest of information on this major figure

Author: Malcolm Boyd
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/17/1999
Pages: 656
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.58lbs
Size: 9.51h x 6.46w x 1.47d
ISBN: 9780198662082


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/15/1999 pg. 91
Booklist 08/01/1999 pg. 2109
Booklist Ed Choice Reference 01/01/2000 pg. 827
Booklist 02/01/2000 pg. 1038
Booklist 05/15/2000 pg. 1780

About the Author

Malcolm Boyd is the author of numerous books on music, particularly on Bach. He was a member of the editorial team for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and is a frequent contributor to periodicals and reviews. He lives in the United Kingdom.



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