History l 17th Century

from Spring 2013 Catalogue

History l 19th Century and 20th Century

pieter bergé is Professor of Music History, Analysis and Theory at the University of Leuven. nathan john martin and markus neuwirth are postdoctoral researchers at the University of Leuven. david lodewyckx and pieter herregodts are doctoral researchers at the University of Leuven.

n € 19,90 / £17.00

n isbn 978 90 5867 948 2 n April 2013 n Paperback, 10 x 15 cm n ca. 250 p. n English

Concise Cadence Compendium A Systematic Overview of Cadence Types and Terminology for 18th-Century Music

Pieter Bergé, Nathan John Martin, Markus Neuwirth, David Lodewyckx, Pieter Herregodts

Indispensable pocket guide for music theorists and students of 18th-century music This compendium provides a systematic list and description of cadence types in 18th-century music. It includes Latin, Italian, French, German and English terminology, both from historical and contemporary sources. For each cadence type, the compendium presents a short definition, a textbook example, and some basic information on its historical context. As such, it is indispensable for music theorists and students of 18thcentury music.

‘The [Leuven Cadence Compendium] project represents the first systematic attempt to provide a comprehensive compendium of concepts and terminology associated with cadence, a project from which the scholarly community should benefit enormously.’ David Sears in Eighteenth-Century Music

By the same author

n Dies irae. Kroniek van het requiem Pieter Bergé € 24,50, isbn 978 90 5867 880 5, paperback n Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre. Three Methodological Reflections William E. Caplin, James Hepokoski, James Webster Pieter Bergé (ed.) € 24,90 / £21.90, isbn 978 90 5867 822 5, paperback

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of Fugue Performance Practice Based on German Eighteenth-Century Theory

Ewald Demeyere

A practical guide to the performance of the Art of Fugue With the Art of Fugue Bach delivered a polyphonic composition for keyboard of unprecedented proportions and complexity. Notwithstanding the vast existing literature on this brilliant work, a performer does not often find answers in it to practical questions such as ‘Why is this note not flatted?’ or ‘How can one make this peculiar voice-leading work during performance?’ This book by a leading Bach performer is designed to fill this void and provide a practical guide to the performance of the Art of Fugue. The first part contains an overview of four important Baroque topics related to the concept and performance of the Art of Fugue (rhetoric, metre, syntax, and keyboard technique). The second part basically demonstrates, with reference to the first four Contrapuncti, how the background presented in the first part often enables possible explanations for both text-critical and conceptual issues to be formulated. The final purpose is to achieve as eloquent a performance as possible of these pieces.

Also of Interest

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n Johann Sebastian Bach Christmas Oratorio. (bwv248) Ignace Bossuyt € 25,50 / £22.50, isbn 978 90 5867 421 0, paperback n De Goldbergvariaties van J.S. Bach Ignace Bossuyt € 15,00, isbn 978 90 5867 861 4, paperback ewald demeyere (www.ewalddemeyere.be) is a harpsichordist, conductor, theorist and Professor at the Royal Conservatory Antwerp.