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Theories of Fugue Irom the Age of Josquin fo the Age of Bach Paul Mark Walker — — Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach From Johann Beer, Musikalische Discurse durch der Philosophie deducirt (Nuremberg: Peter Conrad Monath, 1719) Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach Paul Mark Walker University of Rochester Press Copyright © 2000 Paul Mark Walker All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation, no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded, or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. First published 2000 by the University of Rochester Press The University of Rochester Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer, Inc. 668 Mt. Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA and of Boydell & Brewer, Ltd. P.O. Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK ISBN 1-58046-029-1 ISSN 1071-9989 Eastman Studies in Music, vol. 13 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book may be found under the OCLC accession number 43186555 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Designed and typeset by ISIS-1 Corporation Printed in the United States of America This publication is printed on acid-free paper Contents List of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I: Fugal Theory of the Renaissance and Early Baroque 1 Fugue in the High Renaissance 7 2 Fugue at the End of the Renaissance, Part I: Italy and the Netherlands 54 3 Fugue at the End of the Renaissance, Part II: Germany 77 4 German Theory during the Thirty Years War: Fugue in Latin School Music Texts 112 Part II: The Genesis of the Modern Fugue: Italy and Germany in the Mid- Seventeenth Century 5 Italian Influence on German Fugal Theory, 1640-1680 139 6 Instrumental Fugue and the Emergence of Fugal Structure in the Third Quarter of the Seventeenth Century 165 7 Invertible Counterpoint and the Hamburg Circle of Theorists 204 Part III: German Fugal Theory of the Mature Baroque, 1680-1740 8 Fugal Theory, 1680-1710 221 9 Fugal Theory in German Lexicographic Texts 273 10 Fugal Theory, 1710-1740: Mattheson and Fux 292 Conclusion 348 Notes 356 Glossary 413 Bibliography 448 Index 477