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A Study of Musical Rhetoric in J. S. Bach's Organ Fugues BWV 546, 552.2, 577, and 582

Liao, Wei-Chun
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427983542

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2015, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Organ.
This study explores the musical-rhetorical tradition in German Baroque music and its connection with Johann Sebastian Bach’s fugal writing. Fugal theory according to musica poetica sources includes both contrapuntal devices and structural principles. Johann Mattheson’s dispositio model for organizing instrumental music provides an approach to comprehending the process of Baroque composition. His view on the construction of a subject also offers a way to observe a subject’s transformation in the fugal process. While fugal writing was considered the essential compositional technique for developing musical ideas in the Baroque era, a successful musical-rhetorical dispositio can shape the fugue from a simple subject into a convincing and coherent work. The analyses of the four selected fugues in this study, BWV 546, 552.2, 577, and 582, will provide a reading of the musical-rhetorical dispositio for an understanding of Bach’s fugal writing.
Roberta Gary, D.M.A. (Committee Chair)
bruce mcclung, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Stephanie Schlagel, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
76 p.
Music
musical rhetoric; fugue; Bach

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  • Liao, W.-C. (2015). A Study of Musical Rhetoric in J. S. Bach's Organ Fugues BWV 546, 552.2, 577, and 582 [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427983542

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Liao, Wei-Chun. A Study of Musical Rhetoric in J. S. Bach's Organ Fugues BWV 546, 552.2, 577, and 582. 2015. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427983542.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Liao, Wei-Chun. "A Study of Musical Rhetoric in J. S. Bach's Organ Fugues BWV 546, 552.2, 577, and 582." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427983542

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