Search for dissertations about: "Johann Sebastian Bach"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Johann Sebastian Bach.

  2. 1. Lusus Poeticus vel Musicus : Johann Sebastian Bach, the Baroque Paragram and Friedrich Smend's Number Alphabet Theory

    Author : Ruth Tatlow; Arnold Whittall; London university; []
    Keywords : HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bach; Number alphabet; Germanistics; Baroque literature; Music; Musikvetenskap; Musikvetenskap; Musicology; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History of Sciences and Ideas;

    Abstract : The starting point of this investigation was Friedrich Smend's number alphabet theory. Contrary to current trends in the analysis of Bach's music, Friedrich Smend used an eighteenth-century technique to understand eighteenth century music. READ MORE

  4. 2. Imagination, form, movement and sound. Studies in musical improvisation

    Author : Svein Erik Tandberg; Göteborgs universitet; Göteborgs universitet; Gothenburg University; []
    Keywords : Aesthetic; artistic research; chronology versus phenomenology; cognitive models; cross-modality; imitation; improvisation; motor programmes; organ; organ textbooks; procedural knowledge; Protestant practices; Roman Catholic practices; schemas; style; Johann Sebastian Bach; Anton Bruckner; Marcel Dupre; Rolande Falcinelli; Cesar Franck; Johann Georg Herzog; Hermann Keller; Olivier Latry; Conrad Paumann; Max Reger; Heinz Wunderlich; Ruth Zechlin;

    Abstract : How does one improvise? How can one learn the art of improvisation? By consid - ering these two questions this thesis aspires to make a contribution towards a greater understanding of what the production of improvised music actually involves. The organ has long traditions as an instrument on which music is improvised, and this study aims to focus primarily on organ improvisation. READ MORE

  5. 3. 'A passable and good temperament': a new methodology for studying tuning and temperament in organ music

    Author : Johan Norrback; Göteborgs universitet; Göteborgs universitet; Gothenburg University; Göteborgs universitet; Gothenburg University; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; organ; organ building; historical sources; methodology; tuning; temperament; Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750 ;

    Abstract : Playing Johann Sebastian Bach's organ chorale O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig (BWV 656) on an organ tuned according to a historic temperament raises questions about the role of temperament in organ music. From the interpreters point of view it would be desirable to be able to compare different temperaments effect on the music, and based on that draw conclusions about the temperaments role in the interpretative process. READ MORE