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Author Yearsley, David Gaynor, author.

Title Bach's Feet : the Organ Pedals in European Culture.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (314 pages).
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Series Musical Performance and Reception
Musical performance and reception.
Summary Yearsley explores the cultural significance of making music with hands and feet, a mode of performance unique to the organ.
Contents Cover; BACH'S FEET; MUSICAL PERFORMANCE AND RECEPTION; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: the guardian of the organ loft; ORIGINS AND ADAPTATION; A CONGRESS OF FEET; ITINERARY; MY PEDAL PAST; THE ORGAN IN EXILE; CHAPTER 1: Inventing the organist's feet; THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE PEDALS; THE BIRTH OF PEDAL INDEPENDENCE: THE ORGAN TRIO; VIRTUOSIC INDEPENDENCE OF HANDS AND FEET: BACH'S TRIOS; DANCING TO THE IDEAL; BACH AND BERNHARD; CHAPTER 2: Harmonies of the feet, visions of the body; COMPREHENDING THE ORGAN'S DIMENSIONS.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject BMBF-Statusseminar.
Europa.
Organ music -- Germany -- History and criticism.
Organ music.
Germany.
Genre/Form Organ music.
Subject Organ music -- Europe -- History and criticism.
Europe.
Organ (Musical instrument) -- Pedaling -- History.
Organ (Musical instrument)
History.
Organ (Musical instrument) -- Germany -- History.
Organ (Musical instrument) -- Europe -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780521199018
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