J. S. BACH'S PRECEPTS & PRINCIPLES FOR PLAYING THE THOROUGH BASS 1994 HARDCOVER

[BACH, JOHAN SEBASTIAN]. Precepts and Principles for Playing the Thorough-Bass or Accompanying in Four Parts, Leipzig 1738. Translation with Facsimile, Introduction, and Explanatory Notes by Pamela L. Poulin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.\nFirst edition, first impression. Hardcover with dust jacket. Quarto (250 x 195 mm). Pp. [xxvii],112. Hardly used and in excellent condition. Scarce.\nNotes: Believed to have been dictated by J.S. Bach to one of his students at the Leipzig Thomas-Schule, the Precepts and Principles for Playing the Thorough Bass or Accompanying in Four Parts is the most important teaching document of Bach's to have survived, providing insights into his teaching of harmony and fugue, and perhaps on his compositional process as well. Heinrich Schenker made use of Precepts (which he called Bach's Generalbassibuchlein ) in the formulation of his analytical system. Here is a translation, commentary, transcription of the music examples into modern notation, and complete f.