Bach’s Continuo Group: Players and Practices in His Vocal Works

Dreyfus, Laurence

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.

EAN

9780674060302

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published

15 March 1990

Pages

280