Bach's Continuo Group: Players and Practices in His Vocal Works (Studies in the History of Music)

by Laurence Dreyfus

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When Bach's cantatas, masses, passions, and chorales were originally performed under the composer's direction, which instruments played the basso continuo, the line that establishes the harmonic framework? Bach's Continuo Group answers this and other fundamental questions and probes the rationale behind Baroque performance conventions.
  • ISBN10 0674060202
  • ISBN13 9780674060203
  • Publish Date 1 January 1987
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 14 March 1991
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Harvard University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English