Klavier / Cembalo / Orgel
• published within the ‘Signature’ Series, a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works, prepared from original sources by leading scholars
• includes informative introductions and performance notes
• includes performance on harpsichord by Davitt Moroney on 2 CDs
• exclusive sample graphic analysis of Contrapunctus 8
• two-stave keyboard layout makes the work accessible to modern players and students
* Introduction
1. Canon alla Decima in Contrapunto alla Terza
2. Canon alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta
3. Canon alla Ottava
4. Canon per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu
5. Contrapunctus 1
6. Contrapunctus 10 a 4 alla Decima
7. Contrapunctus 11 a 4
8. Contrapunctus 12 a 4
9. Contrapunctus 12 a 4 (Contrapunctus inversus)
10. Contrapunctus 13 a 3
11. Contrapunctus 13 a 3 (Contrapunctus inversus)
12. Contrapunctus 14 a 4
13. Contrapunctus 2
14. Contrapunctus 3
15. Contrapunctus 4
16. Contrapunctus 5
17. Contrapunctus 6 a 4 in Stylo Francese
18. Contrapunctus 7 a 4 per Augmentationem et Diminutionem
19. Contrapunctus 8 a 3
20. Contrapunctus 9 a 4 alla Duodecima
* Analytical Notes
* Performance Notes
* Textual Notes
The leading Bach scholar Dr Richard Jones has re-examined the principal sources of this key work from Bach's final decade. "Die Kunst der Fuge" was left unfinished at the composer's death and deemed by many to be "problematic". It has also long been considered a non-keyboard work. In this new edition, however, the two-stave keyboard layout makes the work accessible to mordern players and students. It is also enhanced by the editor's extensive analytical and performance notes. This publication includes a recording of Richard Jones's edition on CD, performed on the harpsichord by Davitt Moroney.
