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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Park, Misung

Titel

Chaconnes and passacaglias in the keyboard music of François Couperin (1668–1733) and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1665–1746)

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The related ground-bass musical genres chaconne and passacaglia experienced many changes throughout the roughly 200-year period in which the genres were being widely cultivated. The genres are designated as continuous variations on a repeated musical element; however, problems of genre labeling have made it difficult to ascertain the history of the genre. The purpose of this treatise is to explore the treatment of the genres chaconne and passacaglia in the music of the contemporaries François Couperin and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, specifically, the ways in which they developed the genres within their keyboard repertoire. Analysis of selected chaconnes and passacaglias will help illustrate the form and reveal both differences and similarities within the genres. In addition, this study will examine the ways in which Couperin and Fischer transformed and manipulated the bass variation genre and developed it within their own musical style. The overall goal of this undertaking is to provide greater resources for interpreting these two composers' styles to pianists who wish to perform these pieces.