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02378aam a22003858i 4500 001 1880D5945D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48 003 SILO 005 20200303010150 008 190628s2020 nyu b 000 0deng 010 $a 2019027075 020 $a 0393635368 020 $a 9780393635362 (hardcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a ML410.B1 $b K3 2020 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Kennicott, Philip, $e author. 245 10 $a Counterpoint : $b a memoir of Bach and mourning / $c Philip Kennicott. 250 $a First edition. 260 $a New York : $b W. W. Norton & Company, $c 2020. 263 $a 2002 300 $a 244 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "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?"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Bach, Johann Sebastian, $d 1685-1750 $x Appreciation. 600 10 $a Bach, Johann Sebastian, $d 1685-1750. $t Goldberg-Variationen. 600 10 $a Kennicott, Philip. 941 $a 6 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909060728.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220402010219.0 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20220223011026.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20200724011233.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200702013811.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200303015028.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1880D5945D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search