Counterpoint: A Memoir Of Bach And Mourning Philip Kennicott Ww Norton Co Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Music

As His Mother Was Dying Philip Kennicott Began To Listen The Music Of Bach Obsessively It Only That Didn’t Seem Trivial Or Irrelevant And Enabled Him Both Experience Her Death Remove Himself From For Bach’s Held Elements Joy Despair Life Its Inevitable End He Spent Next Five Years Trying Learn One Composer’s Greatest Keyboard Masterpieces Goldberg Variations In Counterpoint Recounts Efforts Rise Challenge Fight Through Grief By Coming Terms With Memories A Difficult Complicated Childhood Describes Joys Mastering Some Piano Pieces Frustrations Plague Understanding Others Technical Challenges They Pose Surpassing Beauty Melodies Harmonies Distinguish Them While Exploring Compositions Sketches Cultural History Playing Twentieth Century Raises Two Questions Become Increasingly Interrelated Not Unlike Contrapuntal Passage Itself: What Does Mean Know Piece Music? Another Human Being? Σελίδες: 256 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0110 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm