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Bach's Feet: The Organ Pedals In European Culture (Musical Performance and Reception) - Softcover

Yearsley, David

 
9781316639832: Bach's Feet: The Organ Pedals In European Culture (Musical Performance and Reception)

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Yearsley explores the cultural significance of making music with hands and feet, a mode of performance unique to the organ.

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David Yearsley is the author of Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint (Cambridge, 2002) as well as numerous essays on European musical culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; his scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music and Letters, Early Music and Eighteenth-Century Music. Active as a performer on organ and other keyboard instruments, his recordings are available on the Loft and Musica Omnia labels. Yearsley has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellow at Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden. A long-time member of the pioneering synthesizer trio Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, he is Professor of Music at Cornell University, New York.

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