Thorough-Bass Accompaniment According to Johann David Heinichen

"A rich store of information. It is skillfully written and organized, and includes an extensive bibliography of thorough-bass sources. Handsomely produced, it constitutes a significant addition to our knowledge of the period, indispensable for both performer and scholar."-Journal of the American Musicological Society. "'Required reading' for performers and historians of the figured bass."-Performance Practice Review.Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729) was a distinguished composer, a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, and Cappellmeister at the court of August I in Dresden. His tratise, Der General-Bass in der Composition, is one of the most comprehensive sources for the late Baroque practice of figured-bass, or thorough-bass, accompaniment. It is a fund of information about many complex problems confronting musicians in the performance and interpretation of Baroque music, including meters, embellishments, dissonance, particular complications for recitative, and use of the figured bass.With a judicious combination of translation, interpretation, and commentary George J. Buelow makes Heinichen's famous treatise accessible for contemporary scholars and performers. Buelow provides translations of key sections of the treatise, explains its historical significance, clarifies Heinichen's obscurities, and relates the treatise to other musical theories and practices of the Baroque, including those of Gasparini, Mattheson, and the Bachs. Buelow, one of the world's premier experts on Baroque music, is a professor of musicology at Indiana University.Buelow, George J. is the author of 'Thorough-Bass Accompaniment According to Johann David Heinichen', published 1992 under ISBN 9780803261068 and ISBN 0803261063.