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OverviewJohann Sebastian Bach’s chorale settings have been vital to the teaching of music ever since they were composed. His four-voiced harmonisations represent a Baroque composer’s approach to melodies that are often centuries older. As musical styles continued to evolve, each succeeding generation of teachers and students brought their own viewpoint to bear on this small corpus of music. Consequently, during the three centuries since their composition and a quarter of a millennium since their first publication, a range of contrasting ideas and approaches has tended to obscure the fundamental nature of these short yet complex musical works. This Course provides a thorough re-appraisal of this inspiring music. Each Chapter builds on the work of previous ones, so that the student is taken from the simplest harmonisations of single phrases right through to the most complex settings of complete chorale melodies employing the full range of Bach’s harmonic resources. All the exercises are based directly on Bach’s own music. The two final Chapters take the most advanced student into more specialised areas of four-part harmony. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christopher MableyPublisher: The Choir Press Imprint: The Choir Press Volume: 1 Dimensions: Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 29.70cm Weight: 0.609kg ISBN: 9781910864258ISBN 10: 1910864250 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 10 November 2015 Audience: General/trade , Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPart I: The principles of his style. Chapter 1: Intervals. Prelude to Chapter 2 - The 'Five Steps' method. Chapter 2: Phrases which close with a Perfect Cadence. Chapter 3: Phrases which close with an Imperfect Cadence. Coda to Part I: Alternative cadence patterns. Part II:Cadential suspensions. Chapter 4: The 'IIb -Va-Ia' Perfect Cadence. Chapter 5: The '4 -3' Perfect Cadence. Chapter 6: The 'Ic -Va-Ia' Perfect Cadence. Coda to Part II: The Interrupted Cadence (continued). Part III: Further elaborations of his style. Chapter 7: Suspensions in the melody and in the bass line. Chapter 8: Suspensions in all voices. Postlude to Chapter 8: Elaborating earlier work. Chapter 9: Harmonising a full chorale. Part IV: Modulations. Chapter 10: Modulation to and from the Dominant key. Chapter 11: Modulation to and from the Relative Major key. Chapter 12: Modulation to and from two related keys. Coda to Part IV: Chromatic modulation. Varied harmonisations of the same melody. Part V: Extensions. Chapter 13: Harmonising modal melodies. Chapter 14: Developing an instrumental style of harmonisation. Coda to Part V: ConclusionReviewsAuthor InformationChristopher Mabley is a teacher, conductor, composer, arranger, performer, writer and examiner. He studied Music at the University of Cambridge, and subsequently took a Master's degree in the Theory and Analysis of Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has taught Bach's chorale harmony to students of all abilities since 1984. Inspired at the turn of the millennium to make his own investigations into the musical language of Bach's fourvoiced chorale harmonisations, fourteen years later he completed this Course, marking the tercentenary of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Just as Emanuel had been concerned to ensure the accuracy of the original publications of this music, so Christopher has been concerned to ensure that the manner of their harmonisation is understood on its own terms rather than from opposing perspectives. Students over many generations have benefited from his evolving ideas, and this Course represents the culmination of his research; its publication marks 250 years since Bach's four-voiced chorale harmonisations first appeared in print in 1765. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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