"Well Tempered Clavier" 1 and 2 by J.S. Bach. Analysis?

August 31, 2007 5:31 AM

help on fugues! im looking for analyses of the fugues in "Well Tempered Clavier" 1 and 2 by J.S. Bach

Im looking for something that explains when the exposition ends, when the subject and the answer take place, when each episode ends with a cadence etc

posted by freddymetz to Education (5 answers total)

You might find Bachanalia: The Essential Listener's Guide to Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (currently out of print) by Eric Lewin Altschuler useful as it has fairly high-level schematic descriptions of the fugue structures. (I cannot personally attest to the overall quality of the text as I haven't actually read it.)
posted by yz at 5:46 AM on August 31, 2007

Here.
posted by Wolfdog at 5:48 AM on August 31, 2007 [1 favorite]

Is this what you're looking for?
posted by Zero Gravitas at 9:34 AM on August 31, 2007

Oh damn. Didn't preview
posted by Zero Gravitas at 9:35 AM on August 31, 2007

There's also a treatise on it in Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (some of which you can find online if you do a search on Google Books).
posted by youarenothere at 3:00 PM on August 31, 2007