Description
Meredith Little & Natalie Jenne, “Dance and the Music of J. S. Bach. Expanded Edition”.
Paperback. 352 Pages. 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches. 100 Figures.
Publisher: Indiana University Press.
Contents:
– Part I describes French dance practices in the cities and courts most familiar to Bach. The terminology and analytical tools necessary for discussing dance music of Bach’s time are laid out.
– Part II presents the dance forms that Bach used, annotating all of his named dances. Little and Jenne draw on choreographies, harmony, theorists’ writings, and the music of many seventeenth- and eighteenth-century composers in order to arrive at a model for each dance type.
– In Appendix A all of Bach’s named dances are listed in convenient tabular form; included are the BWV number for each piece, the date of composition, the larger work in which it appears, the instrumentation, and the meter.
– Appendix B supplies the same data for pieces recognizable as dance types but not named as such.