Bach's Works for Solo Violin: Style, Structure, Performance

Bach's Works for Solo Violin: Style, Structure, Performance

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-196

  Lester, Joel ^a  

^a Mannes College of Music ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Counterpoint; Heightening activity; Johann Sebastian Bach; Performance; Rhetoric; Solo violin works; Thoroughbass

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940020774     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195120974.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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