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Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach. By Paul Mark Walker. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2000.
(Eastman Studies in Music, 13.) [Xi, 485 p. ISBN 1-58046-029-1. $120.]
Toward the end of this authoritative book, Paul Mark Walker praises the great eighteenth-century theorist Johann Mattheson for "his unparalleled knowledge of German treatises after 1660"--a bibliographic mastery that leads Walker to describe the work of his august, if often inflammatory, predecessor as "the culmination of German Baroque fugal theory" (p. 347). Mattheson had a large library, the relentlessness of a committed researcher, and a flair ...
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