Contents

List of figures

List of schemes

List of tables

List of music examples

List of abbreviations

Preliminary notes concerning the figures

Preface

Introduction

PART I
Toward the history of the conception

  1 The last decade

  2 On the conception of The Art of Fugue

  3 Bach’s illness and the changes in his handwriting

PART II
The principal documents: The Autograph and the Original Edition

  4 The Autograph

  5 The Original Edition

PART III
J.S. Bach’s work on The Art of Fugue

  6 The versions in Bach’s music

  7 The First Version of The Art of Fugue

  8 The Second Version

  9 Toward the Third Version

10 The Third Version

11 The Fourth Version

PART IV
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s work toward the publication of The Art of Fugue

12 Settings, attitudes and circumstances

13 Sequencing and titles in the Original Edition

14 The history of the 1752 edition

PART V
Toward a new interpretation of The Art of Fugue

15 The title page as a ‘letters and numbers game’ and the question of authorship

16 Contrapunctur

17 Myths about the Canon in Augmentation

18 The autograph of the last fugue: An unfinished copy?

19 ‘Over this fugue …’

20 Revelation (instead of an Epilogue)

Bibliography

Index