Tempo and Tactus in the German Baroque: Treatises, Scores, and the Performance of Organ Music

Julia Dokter

doi:10.1017/9781800102279

Tempo and Tactus in the German Baroque

Treatises, Scores, and the Performance of Organ Music

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Julia Dokter

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: October 2022
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781800102279
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800102279

Series:: Eastman Studies in Music
Subjects:: Music, Music: General Interest, Music Criticism

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Guides modern performers and scholars through the intricacies of German Baroque metric theory, via analyses of treatises and organ music by J. S. Bach and other leading composers, such as Buxtehude, Bruhns, and Weckman.

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Tempo and Tactus in the German Baroque

Treatises, Scores, and the Performance of Organ Music

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-xiv

Acknowledgments
pp xv-xvi

Notes to the Reader
pp xvii-xxii

Introduction
pp 1-46

Part 1 - Treatise Theory
pp 47-48

1 - The Foundation of German Baroque Tempo Theory:Michael Praetorius
pp 49-75

2 - Duple Meter
pp 76-123

3 - Triple and Compound Meter: ProportionalRelationships
pp 124-151

4 - “2” and Blackened/Whitened Notation
pp 152-174

5 - Beat Patterns and Tempo
pp 175-195

6 - Source Excerpts
pp 196-238

7 - Tempo Words
pp 239-252

Part 2 - Score Analysis
pp 253-254

8 - The Functional Equivalency of the Two “Ordinary”Duple Meters in Later Seventeenth-Century OrganMusic
pp 255-288

9 - Stylus Phantasticus
pp 289-312

10 - Differentiations between the Two “Ordinary” DupleMeters in Johann Sebastian Bachs Music
pp 313-333

11 - The Large Allabreve and the “Kirnbergian” SmallAllabreve
pp 334-387

12 - Triple Meter and Tempo Words
pp 388-424

Part 3 - Synthesis
pp 425-426

13 - Case Studies
pp 427-463

14 - Final Remarks, Summary, and Synthesis
pp 464-476

Bibliography
pp 477-514

Index
pp 515-523

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