Kurze und systematische Anleitung zum General-Bass, und der Tonkunst u?berhaupt, mit Exempeln erla?utert ...

Gedruckt zu Cassel: In der Waysenhaus-Buchdruckerey. 1780. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. (16 x 21 cm). [6], 47, [1] pages, including tables and musical examples. Handpainted period wrappers. Stained throughout around the upper right corner, mostly outside the margin, otherwise very good. Rare. Worldcat records 5 copies, of which only 2 in the United States.



A rare copy of the main theoretical work by the German composer, lawyer and music theorist, from a Hessian line of Bachs. His later career included appointments as organist and Kantor at the small central-German village of Tann and the present treatise was once extremely popular and widely circulated. "As a composer and theorist [he] represents in a derivative way a style similar to that of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach." (Christoph Wolff, "The New Grove Bach Family," p. 354) (12277)

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