Kirkpatrick's WTC is Excellent

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	• Interpreting Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: A Performer`s Discourse of Method Ralph Kirkpatrick Yale University Press, 1987 - 124 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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Kirkpatrick's WTC is Excellent

After reading the review below i wondered if maybe this book IS what I was looking for. So I found it and took it out of the library. I couldn't put it down. I devowered the first 40 pages very quickly(and I'm a slow reader) and realized I had to own this book. It's extremely insightful. It's true, it's not one of those goes through documenting every entrance of the subject, countersubject, and episodes. i mean really, who needs that? Most of that jumps right out from the music anyway. And he does talk about the difference between analyses that close your ears to the music and analyses that open your ears. this is definitely in the latter category. Although I have to say, you'd never guess that by looking at the cover.

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This book sets forth the provocative theories of a musician who has been called the outstanding harpsichordist of this century.