Treatise on Fugue
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- Treatise on Fugue
- Author
- Ernst Friedrich Richter
- Publisher
- G. Schirmer
- Place
- New York
- Year
- 1884
- Language
- English translation
- Type
- Fugue / contrapuntal theory
SCOPE & CONTENT
Treatise on Fugue is a historical teaching text in fugue / contrapuntal theory, representing the conservatory-oriented theoretical practice of the nineteenth or early twentieth century. It is organized to move from definitions and worked examples toward increasingly complex compositional applications.
RESEARCH VALUE
The book is valuable for reconstructing historical pedagogy and terminology. Some rules reflect period conventions rather than universal theory, so modern analytical use benefits from comparison with later scholarship and current editions.
EDITION AND CONTENT
The curated record identifies the 1884 New York edition used as the principal bibliographic anchor, together with publisher, language and document type. Search aliases include shortened and variant forms of both title and author so the item remains discoverable even when the physical filename is abbreviated.
RESEARCH VALUE
The book is valuable for reconstructing historical pedagogy and terminology. Some rules reflect period conventions rather than universal theory, so modern analytical use benefits from comparison with later scholarship and current editions.
- Catalogue completeness
- 6 / 10 core bibliographic fields