Rethinking J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue

Contents

• List of Figures List of Schemes List of Tables List of Musical Examples List of Abbreviations Notes on
• Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I : Toward the History of the Conception
• 1. The Last Decade
• 2. On the Conception of The Art of Fugue
• 3. Bach's Illness and the Changes in his Handwriting
• Part II : The Principal Documents: the Autograph and the Original Edition
• 4. The Autograph
• 5. The Original Edition
• Part III : J.S. Bach's work on The Art of Fugue
• 6. The versions in Bach's music
• 7. The First Version of The Art of Fugue
• 8. The Second Version
• 9. Toward the Third Version
• 10. The Third Version
• 11. The Fourth Version
• Part IV : C.P.E. Bach's work toward the publication of The Art of Fugue
• 12. Settings, Attitudes and Circumstances
• 13. Sequencing and Titles in the Original Edition
• 14. The History of the 1752 Edition
• Part V : Toward a New Interpretation of The Art of Fugue
• 15. The title page as a 'Letters and Numbers Game' and The Question of Authorship
• 16. Contrapunctur 5
• 17. Myths about the Canon in Augmentation
• 18. The Autograph of the Last Fugue: an Unfinished Copy?
• 19. "Over This Fugue..."
• 20. Revelation (Instead of an Epilogue)
• Bibliography
• Index