Download or read book J S Bach at His Royal Instrument written by Russell Stinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument, author Russell Stinson delves into various unexplored aspects of the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Drawing on previous research and new archival sources, he sheds light on many of the most mysterious aspects of these masterpieces, and their reception, and shows how they have remained a fixture of Western culture for nearly three hundred years.
Download or read book J S Bach as Organist written by George B. Stauffer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . a valuable book of scholarly yet highly readable studies . . . every organist and anyone interested in the music of J. S. Bach should have it." —Early Keyboard Journal " . . . a very perceptive and informative guide . . . " —Early Music " . . . this book is a must." —The American Organist " . . . invaluable and entertaining . . . " —American Music Teacher " . . . among the most important and accomplished studies on eighteenth-century performance. Its comprehensiveness, clarity, and scholarship make it indispensable." —Performance Practice Review In J. S. Bach as Organist, specialists from six countries explore Bach's relationship to his favorite instrument during all periods of his career. J. S. Bach as Organist is a book for scholars, performers, and students. Authoritative and wide-ranging.
Download or read book Bach s Legacy written by Russell Stinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Sebastian Bach's legacy is undeniably one of the richest in the history of music, with a vast influence on posterity that has only grown since his rediscovery in the early nineteenth century. In this latest addition to his long list of Bach studies, renowned Bach scholar Russell Stinson examines how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner, and Edward Elgar - engaged with Bach's legacy, not only as composers per se, but also as performers, conductors, scholars, critics, and all-around musical ambassadors. Detailed analyses of both musical and epistolary sources shed light on how these later masters heard and received Bach's music within their musical circles, while colorful anecdotes about their Bach reception help humanize them, reconstructing the intimate social circumstances in which they performed and discussed Bach's music. Stinson focuses on Mendelssohn's and Schumann's reception of Bach's organ works, Schumann's encounter with the St. Matthew and St. John Passions, Wagner's musings on the Well-Tempered Clavier, and Elgar's (resoundingly negative) thoughts on Bach as a vocal composer. Engagingly written, copiously annotated, and thoroughly up to date, Bach's Legacy traces the historical afterlife of Bach's music and offers fascinating insights into how these later masters defined it for their audiences and beyond.
Download or read book The Afterlife of Bach s Organ Works written by Russell Stinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of J. S. Bach continues to be revered and celebrated centuries after his death. Its timelessness can be attributed to masterful musical engineering combined with profound expressivity. In other words, Bach's unique art may represent the pinnacle of contrapuntal technique, but it is just as amazing for its depth of emotion. Bach's compositions remain an indispensable part of the classical-music canon today. The Afterlife of Bach's Organ Works explores the critical impact made on posterity by Bach's organ music. It concerns a diverse group of musicians and non-musicians alike--some famous, some forgotten--who in one way or another became champions of these compositions. These individuals performed the music; edited it for publication; promoted it by means of books, articles, and reviews; transcribed it for other media; taught it to their pupils; shared it with their family and friends; and incorporated it into the soundtracks of their motion pictures. They ensured its "afterlife." In five chapters, organist and Bach expert Russell Stinson traces the historical afterlife of Bach's organ music from the early nineteenth century--the era of the so-called Bach revival--to the present day. Engagingly written and containing a wealth of information previously unavailable in English, the book is a history of performance practice, an aesthetic history of musical taste, and a social history. Each chapter tells the story of how and why Bach's organ works have stood the test of time.
Download or read book Various Short Preludes and Fugues written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1985-03 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: I, Twelve Preludes * II, Six Little Preludes * III, A Little Fugue in C Minor in Two Voices * IV, Fugue in C Major * V, Fugue in C Major * VI, Fugue in D Minor * VII, Fugue in E Minor * VIII, Fugue in A Minor * IX, Fugue in A Major * X, Prelude and Fughetta in D Minor * XI, Prelude and Fughetta in E Minor * XII, Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major * XIII, Prelude and Fugue in A Minor.
Download or read book Bach and the Pedal Clavichord written by Joel Speerstra and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It also sifts and weighs the assumptions and claims made for and against the clavichord and pedal clavichord over two and a half centuries: by Bach's son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, by such noted Bach scholars as Walter Emery and Robert Marshall, and by sharp-eared music lovers, including one of the most perceptive (and one of the few from his era to have actually encountered a clavichord and recognized its unique qualities), George Bernard Shaw."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Toccata Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 written by Johann S. Bach and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jesu joy of man s desiring written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Little Bach Book written by David J Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central subject of this richly illustrated book is the life and career of J. S. Bach, but nearly half the pages are devoted to engaging and detailed descriptions of the everyday world that surrounded him in the early 1700s. Both elements contain the unexpected. Written by a master storyteller and renowned performer of Bach's music.
Download or read book Bach s Feet written by David Yearsley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yearsley explores the cultural significance of making music with hands and feet, a mode of performance unique to the organ.
Download or read book The Organs of J S Bach written by Markus Zepf and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in cooperation with the American Bach Society."
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord written by Mark Kroll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.
Download or read book J S Bach written by Johann Sebastian BACH and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Johann Sebastian Bach did not write any music for the guitar, transcriptions of his unaccompanied string music and music for lute have long been a part of the guitar repertoire. Despite the respect that this musiccommands among musicians and audiences debate still exists as to what constitutes an appropriate means of transcribing, interpreting and performing this music on the guitar. It is this debate that prompted this long-awaited edition of Bach's unaccompanied cello suites by scholar and concert guitarists Stanley Yates. This definitive work includes performance scores, comparison scores an an invaluable 40-page guide entitled Arranging, Interpreting, and Performing the Music of J.S. Bach. Furthermore, theauthor offers comments on his arranging process and suggestions on using this edition including: ornamentation, slurs, fingerings, notation, and implementation of the comparison scores. Written in standard notation inguitar-friendly keys
Download or read book Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by Koenemann. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soft bound music score for piano.
Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments Recently Exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition London 1890 written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bach s Well tempered Clavier written by David Ledbetter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bach's Well-tempered Clavier (or the 48 Preludes and Fugues) stands at the core of baroque keyboard music and has been a model and inspiration for performers and composers ever since it was written. This invaluable guide to the 96 pieces explains Bach's various purposes in compiling the music, describes the rich traditions on which he drew, and provides commentaries for each prelude and fugue. In his text, David Ledbetter addresses the main focal points mentioned by Bach in his original 1722 title page. Drawing on Bach literature over the past three hundred years, he explores German traditions of composition types and Bach's novel expansion of them; explains Bach's instruments and innovations in keyboard technique in the general context of early eighteenth-century developments; reviews instructive and theoretical literature relating to keyboard temperaments from 1680 to 1750; and discusses Bach's pedagogical intent when composing the Well-tempered Clavier. Ledbetter's commentaries on individual preludes and fugues equip readers with the concepts necessary to make their own assessment and include information about the sources when details of notation, ornaments, and fingerings have a bearing on performance.
Download or read book J S Bach The 15 Two part Inventions written by JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful collection of 15 Bach Inventions transcribed for classic guitar solo performance. Each invention is preceded by an optional prelude. the original score is also shown for each invention. A companion recording is available online. A wonderful addition to the performance library of any guitarist!
