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

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

freddymetz — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:31:25 -0800

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

By: yz

yz — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:46:00 -0800

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.)

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:48:32 -0800

Here.

By: Zero Gravitas

Zero Gravitas — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:34:57 -0800

Is this what you're looking for?

By: Zero Gravitas

Zero Gravitas — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:35:18 -0800

Oh damn. Didn't preview

By: youarenothere

youarenothere — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:00:26 -0800

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).