Patterns of play: Orlando Gibbons, Simon Lohet and J. S. Bach’s Fugue in E major BWV 878/2. Part I

Charlston, T. (2019) Patterns of play: Orlando Gibbons, Simon Lohet and J. S. Bach’s Fugue in E major BWV 878/2. Part I. Clavichord International, 23 (2) pp. 39-48. ISSN 1387-0882

Abstract

This article, the first of two parts, considers the musical implications and historical precedents behind the process of studying and learning a complex piece of counterpoint on the clavichord. The thread of thematic material and motivic constructions in J. S. Bach’s E major fugue from the second book of the Well-tempered Clavier is traced against the known tradition of contrapuntal composition and study. The accompanying musical example contains a new complete transcription by the author of the Fantasia in C by Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) from Benjamin Cosyn’s Virginal Book dated 1620 (GB-Lbl R.M. 23.l.4) and the Undecima Fuga by Simon Lohet (before 1550–1611) from the third section of Johann Woltz’s Nova musices organicae tabulatura printed in Basel in 1617.

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Official URL:	http://www.clavichordgenootschap.nl/
Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Originally published by ‘Het Nederlands Clavichord Genootschap’. Posted on RCM Research Online by kind permission of the Editor and Clavichord International. Please note that the ISBN for this individual issue of Clavichord International is 978-90-73029-53-8.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Clavichord, counterpoint, fugue, analysis, stretto, inganni, motif, motive, polyphony, mutation, solmization, inversion, retrograde, transformation
Subjects:	Musical Instruments Performance Science Music Psychology Music aesthetics Music cognition Music Education Music History Music and society Systematic musicology
Division:	Musicology
Depositing User:	Prof Terence Charlston
Date Deposited:	02 Dec 2019 10:29
Last Modified:	05 May 2020 11:37
URI:	https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/907

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