Bach's Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance

Author:   Ruth Tatlow
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   427
Publication Date:   06 August 2015
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Author:   Ruth Tatlow
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.010kg
ISBN:  

9781107088603


ISBN 10:   1107088607
Pages:   427
Publication Date:   06 August 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Ruth Tatlow s painstaking investigation presents an astonishing trove of new information Her analysis of proportional relationships between the Ascension and Easter Oratorios (BWV 11 and 249), with their self-referential bar number total of 1400 and several internal 1:1 or 2:1 proportions, is utterly convincing Tatlow s theory is sound, resoundingly presented and offers a thought-provoking contribution to Bach scholarship; its conclusions can be considered on their own and lend themselves to practical use when a choice has to be made from several alternative versions. Zoltan Szabo, Bach Bibliography (www.music.qub.ac.uk/tomita/bachbib)


'Ruth Tatlow's painstaking investigation presents an astonishing trove of new information ... Her analysis of proportional relationships between the Ascension and Easter Oratorios (BWV 11 and 249), with their self-referential bar number total of 1400 and several internal 1:1 or 2:1 proportions, is utterly convincing ... Tatlow's theory is sound, resoundingly presented and offers a thought-provoking contribution to Bach scholarship; its conclusions can be considered on their own and lend themselves to practical use when a choice has to be made from several alternative versions.' Zoltan Szabo, Bach Bibliography (www.music.qub.ac.uk/tomita/bachbib)


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British-Swedish musicologist Ruth Tatlow is an independent scholar based in Stockholm. Her research into Bach's use of numbers led from her classic monograph Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet (Cambridge, 1991) to its sequel Bach Numbers, through publications on methodology, inventive techniques and the theory of proportional parallelism. In 2004 she co-founded Bach Network UK (BNUK), establishing its open access web-journal Understanding Bach in 2006. She is currently Chair of the BNUK Council, joint editor of Understanding Bach, and a member of the Editorial Board of the American Bach Society. Her research has attracted awards and grants from numerous sources including the Swedish Research Council, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, the Society of Authors of Great Britain, the British Council, The Hinrichsen Foundation, The Leverhulme Trust and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters.

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