Friday, November 17, 2017

New publication: Form functions in Bach menuets

I have just published Formal Functions in Menuets by Johann Sebastian Bach on the Texas Scholar works platform: link.

Here is the abstract:
The menuet entered into upper-class social dance, ballet, and opera no later than the 1660s, thanks largely to Jean Baptiste Lully. This essay charts formal functions (after Caplin) in named menuets  by Johann Sebastian Bach, with additional commentary on his contemporaries in Germanophone countries.