Bach's Continuo Group: Players and Practices in His Vocal Works

by Laurence Dreyfus

Overview

When Bach’s cantatas, masses, passions, and chorales were originally performed under the composer’s direction, which instruments played the basso continuo, the line that establishes the harmonic framework? Bach’s Continuo Group answers this and other fundamental questions and probes the rationale behind Baroque performance conventions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674060302
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	03/15/1990
Series:	Studies in the History of Music , #3
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Laurence Dreyfus is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College.