Shopping Cart: 0 item April 8, 2013 Johann David Heinichen's
Comprehensive Instruction on Basso Continuo by Benedikt
Brilmayer, Translator Casey Mongoven, Translator The treatise,
written in his middle to late 20s, established Heinichen as a
major music theorist in elite music circles. It is the first
German treatise on basso continuo accompaniment from a bass with
or without figures, and the first to draw important distinctions
between the stylus gravis and stylus theatralis. Perhaps most
significant is its inclusion of what he called the musical
circle and is now known as the circle of fifths, and for the
first time describing it as being characterized by the major-
minor dichotomy of today. This first full translation from the
German was inspired by the historical performance movement, and
is intended to be of interest to performers as well as to
musicologists and music historians. It is not indexed April 8,
2013 Johann David Heinichen's Comprehensive Instruction on Basso
Continuo by Benedikt Brilmayer, Tra