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005    20200218013041.0 
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010      2019027075 
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020    0393635368|q(hardcover) 
020    |z9780393635379|q(epub) 
035    (OCoLC)1102475699 
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050 00 ML410.B1|bK3 2020 
082 00 786.2092|aB|223 
100 1  Kennicott, Philip,|eauthor. 
245 10 Counterpoint :|ba memoir of Bach and mourning /|cPhilip 
       Kennicott. 
250    First edition. 
263    2002 
264  1 New York :|bW. W. Norton & Company,|c[2020] 
300    244 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-244). 
520    "A Pulitzer Prize- winning critic reflects on the meaning 
       and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork. As his mother 
       was dying, Philip Kennicott began listening to the music 
       of Bach obsessively, and spent the next five years trying 
       to learn one of the composer's greatest keyboard 
       masterpieces, the Goldberg Variations. In Counterpoint, he
       recounts his efforts to rise to the challenge, and to 
       fight through his grief by coming to terms with memories 
       of a difficult, complicated childhood. He describes the 
       joys of mastering some of the pieces, the frustrations 
       that plague his understanding of others, the technical 
       challenges they pose, and the surpassing beauty of the 
       melodies, harmonies, and counterpoint that distinguish 
       them. While exploring Bach's compositions, he sketches a 
       cultural history of playing the piano in the twentieth 
       century. And he raises two questions that become 
       increasingly interrelated, not unlike a contrapuntal 
       passage in one of the variations itself: What does it mean
       to know a piece of music? What does it mean to know 
       another human being?"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Bach, Johann Sebastian,|d1685-1750|xAppreciation. 
600 10 Bach, Johann Sebastian,|d1685-1750.|tGoldberg-Variationen.
600 10 Kennicott, Philip. 
600 17 Bach, Johann Sebastian,|d1685-1750.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00031701 
630 07 Goldberg-Variationen (Bach, Johann Sebastian)|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01359262 
650  7 MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Art appreciation.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00815447 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
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