BACH motif - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Bach Motif: Encyclopedia - Bach Motif
In music, the BACH motif is the sequence of notes B flat, A, C, B natural. This four-note motif has been used by a number of composers, u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bach Motif: Encyclopedia Ii - Bach Motif - Works Featuring The Mofif
Works which prominently feature the BACH motif include, in chronological order: 1845 - Robert Schumann: Six Fugues for organ, pedal pian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - H: Encyclopedia - H
H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is aitch. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, this symbol is used t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ferruccio Busoni: Encyclopedia - Ferruccio Busoni
Dante Michaelangelo Benvenuto Ferruccio Busoni (April 1, 1866 – July 27, 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, music teacher and cond...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia - Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685–28 July 1750) was a German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anton Webern: Encyclopedia - Anton Webern
Anton Webern (December 3, 1883 – September 15, 1945) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the so called Second Viennese School....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - H: Encyclopedia Ii - H - History
The Semitic letter ח (khêt) probably represented the voiceless pharyngeal fricative (IPA /ħ/). The form of the letter probably stood f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Max Reger: Encyclopedia Ii - Max Reger - Some Reger Works
Max Reger - Chamber Works. Violin sonatas Without piano Four violin solo sonatas in opus 42 Seven violin solo sonatas in opus 91 W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Krzysztof Penderecki: Encyclopedia Ii - Krzysztof Penderecki - Selected Works
Krzysztof Penderecki - Orchestral and instrumental. Violin Sonata No. 1 (1953 rev. 1990) Emanations (Emanacje, 1959), for two string o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fugue: Encyclopedia Ii - Fugue - History
The term fuga was used as far back as the Middle Ages, but was initially used to refer to any kind of imitative counterpoint, including c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ferruccio Busoni: Encyclopedia Ii - Ferruccio Busoni - Busoni's Music
The majority of Busoni's works are for the piano. Busoni's music is typically contrapuntally complex, with several melodic lines unwindin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia Ii - Johann Sebastian Bach - Biography
Johann Sebastian Bach - Early years. Johann Sebastian Bach was a member of one of the most extraordinary musical families of all time. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anton Webern: Encyclopedia Ii - Anton Webern - Webern's Music
Webern was not a prolific composer; just thirty-one of his compositions were published in his lifetime, and when Pierre Boulez oversaw a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Art Of Fugue: Encyclopedia Ii - The Art Of Fugue - The Music
The piece is written in parts score without instrument designation, although all of it fits the range of commonly available keyboard inst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Luigi Dallapiccola: Encyclopedia Ii - Luigi Dallapiccola - Life
Unlike many composers born into highly musical environments, Dallapiccola's early musical career was irregular at best. Political dispute...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Max Reger: Encyclopedia Ii - Max Reger - Works
During a composing life of little more than 20 years, Reger produced a large output in all genres, nearly always in abstract forms, altho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Art Of Fugue: Encyclopedia Ii - The Art Of Fugue - Some Notable Performances Of The Art Of Fugue
See here for a more complete list. Piano: Charles Rosen (1967) Tatiana Nikolayeva (1992) Organ: Helmut Walcha (1956, 1970) [1] Glenn G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Luigi Dallapiccola: Encyclopedia Ii - Luigi Dallapiccola - Selected Works
Luigi Dallapiccola - Writings by Dallapiccola. Dallapiccola on Opera, Selected writings of Luigi Dallapiccola, Vol 1, Toccata Press (1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Luigi Dallapiccola: Encyclopedia Ii - Luigi Dallapiccola - Music
It was Richard Wagner's music that inspired Dallapiccola to start composing in earnest, and Claude Debussy's that caused him to stop: hea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fugue: Encyclopedia Ii - Fugue - Characteristics And Anatomy
Fugue - Number of voices. The number of voices in a fugue generally ranges from three to five, but eight or even ten voices are possibl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia Ii - Johann Sebastian Bach - Works
JS Bach’s works are indexed with BWV numbers, an initialism for Bach Werke Verzeichnis (Bach Works Catalogue). The catalogue, published...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia Ii - Johann Sebastian Bach - Legacy
In his later years and after his death, Bach's reputation as a composer declined: his work was regarded as old-fashioned compared to the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia Ii - Johann Sebastian Bach - Style
Bach's compositional style is characterized by contrapuntal textures, linear tonic/dominant harmonic progressions and consistent motor rh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anton Webern: Encyclopedia Ii - Anton Webern - List Of Works
Anton Webern - Works with opus numbers. The works with opus numbers are the ones that Webern saw fit to have published in his own lifet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anton Webern: Encyclopedia Ii - Anton Webern - Biography
Webern was born in Vienna, Austria, as Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern. He never used his middle names, dropping the von in 1918. Afte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ferruccio Busoni: Encyclopedia Ii - Ferruccio Busoni - Biography
Busoni was born in Empoli in Italy, the only child of two professional musicians: his Italian/German mother a pianist, his Italian father...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ferruccio Busoni: Encyclopedia Ii - Ferruccio Busoni - Busoni's Editions
Busoni also edited of music by other composers. The best known of these is his edition of the complete Bach solo keyboard works, which he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - H: Encyclopedia Ii - H - Alternative Representations
The NATO phonetic alphabet represents H as Hotel. To ensure compatibility with those languages in which H is silent, 'Hotel' is officiall...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - H: Encyclopedia Ii - H - Usage In German
In the German language, the name of the letter is pronounced /haː/. In the German language, this letter is used in the digraph "ch" and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - H: Encyclopedia Ii - H - Usage In French
In the French language, the name of the letter is pronounced /aʃ/. The French language classifies words that begin with this letter in t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ferruccio Busoni: Encyclopedia Ii - Ferruccio Busoni - Recordings
Busoni made a considerable number of piano rolls, and a small number of these have been re-recorded onto vinyl record or CD. His recorded...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fugue: Encyclopedia Ii - Fugue - Is The Fugue A Musical Form?
A widespread view of the fugue is that it is not a musical form (in the sense that, say, sonata form is) but rather a technique of compos...   » Read the article