Download or read book The Interpretation of Bach S Keyboard Works written by Erwin Bodky and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard written by Paul Badura-Skoda and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ever-increasing number of performances of Bach's music is a sign of its enduring vitality. But perhaps no other composer is subject to such a wide diversity of interpretation--assessing the merits of these many interpretations and unravelling the sources and documents on which they are based can be extremely difficult for the modern performer. In this important book, Paul Badura-Skoda draws on forty years of studying and performing Bach to present startling new insights into many different aspects of Bach's music. He looks at rhythm, tempo, articulation, and dynamics; examines the instruments for which Bach's music was intended, and considers problems of sonority. He then discusses ornamentation in depth, analyzing each of the signs and symbols used by Bach, and argues that much of Bach's ornamentation in current performance is monotonous and fails to reflect the actual Baroque style. Sometimes contentious, always stimulating, Badura-Skoda's book conveys a passion for an informed interpretation of Bach's music based on a recognition and respect for Bach's actual intentions. Copiously illustrated with musical examples, the book will take its place as a standard work for all students and performers of Bach's ever-popular keyboard music.
Download or read book INTERPRETATION OF BACH S KEYBOARD WORKS written by ERWIN. BODKY and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Interpretation Of Bach S Keyboard Works written by Erwin Bodky and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, Erwin Bodky offers a fresh perspective on the music of Bach, with a particular focus on his keyboard works. With meticulous analysis and detailed attention to historical context, Bodky illuminates the complexities and challenges of interpreting Bach's music. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Interpretation of Bach s Keyboard Works Erwin Bodky written by Erwin Bodky and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Keyboard Music of J S Bach written by David Schulenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach provides an introduction to and comprehensive discussion of all the music for harpsichord and other stringed keyboard instruments by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Often played today on the modern piano, these works are central not only to the Western concert repertory but to musical pedagogy and study throughout the world. Intended as both a practical guide and an interpretive study, the book consists of three introductory chapters on general matters of historical context, style, and performance practice, followed by fifteen chapters on the individual works, treated in roughly chronological order. The works discussed include all of Bach's individual keyboard compositions as well as those comprising his famous collections, such as the Well-Tempered Clavier, the English and French Suites, and the Art of Fugue.
Download or read book Performing Bach s Keyboard Music written by George A. Kochevitsky and published by John Deere Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard written by Paul Badura-Skoda and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of problems surrounding the interpretation of Bach's keyboard music, this work looks at rhythm, tempo, articulation and dynamics, as well as the instruments for which Bach's music was intended. It also includes a discussion of ornamentation.
Download or read book Interpreting Bach s Well tempered Clavier written by Ralph Kirkpatrick and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets forth the provocative theories of a musician who has been called the outstanding harpsichordist of this century. The late Ralph Kirkpatrick reveals here his approach to a deeper comprehension of music, showing how his methods are applied to the preludes and fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier of J.S. Bach. "This book is brilliant and important."--Clavier "All keyboardists performing classical repertoire can greatly benefit from Kirkpatrick's scholarship, dry wit, and stubborn dedication."--Keyboard "That Mr. Kirkpatrick's extraordinarily perceptive mind knew the subject matter thoroughly is beyond dispute. . . Valuable insights into the analysis, teaching and performance of all Western music, especially Bach's monumental Well-Tempered Clavier."--Arthur Lawrence, The American Organist "We are fortunate to have this book by Ralph Kirkpatrick. . . From it we gain insight into the musical mind of one of the outstanding performers of our century."--The Music Review "The real matter of the book is good old-fashioned musicianship."--Denis Arnold, London Review of Books
Download or read book At the Piano with J S Bach written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful edition aimed at helping the intermediate / early advanced pianist perform Bach's music in a stylistically acceptable manner. It includes suggested articulation, dynamic, and fingering indications. Also included is history on Bach as a performer and a teacher to aid in better understanding Bach's works and styles.
Download or read book The Music of J S Bach written by David Schulenberg and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains contributions by nine scholars on two broad themes: the analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach?s orchestral works, especially his concertos, and the interpretation and performance of his music in general. The contributors are a diverse group, active in the fields of performance, organology, music theory, and music history. Several work in more than one of these areas, making them particularly well prepared to write on the interdisciplinary themes of the volume. ø Part 1 includes Alfred Mann?s introduction to Bach?s orchestral music as well as essays by Gregory G. Butler and Jeanne Swack on the Brandenburg Concertos. Part 2 offers ground-breaking articles by John Koster and Mary Oleskiewicz on the harpsichords and flutes of Bach?s day as well as essays by David Schulenberg and William Renwick on keyboard performance practice and the study of fugue in Bach?s circle. Paul Walker explores the relationships between rhetoric and fugue, and John Butt reviews some recent trends in Bach performance.
Download or read book The Interpretation of Bach s Well tempered Clavier Book 1 a Study in Diversity written by Brian Dykstra and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the present century a great deal of scholarly research has been devoted to the stylistic performance of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Much of this research concerns ornamentation, an area of performance in which scholars have indeed made contributions. The harpsichord and the clavichord--popular keyboard instruments in the Baroque period--are today enjoyed by a large segment of the concert-going and record-buying public, thanks largely to the efforts of scholars who have advocated the revival of these instruments and artists who have devoted themselves to performance on them. Today the leading record catalogue lists approximately as many recordings of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier on the harpsichord or clavichord as on the piano. Scholars have also given considerable attention to certain problems dealing with rhythm in Baroque music, and they have improved the textual accuracy of editions of Baroque works. However, there are several major areas of performance in which the student of Bach's keyboard music can receive little or no significant help from scholarly research. These areas are tempo, articulation and phrasing, and dynamics. The obvious reason for this informational void is that Bach, like most other composers of his time, hardly ever notated indications for tempo, articulation, phrasing, or dynamics in his keyboard works. Given Bach's lack of directions for performance, it is only natural that editions and recordings of his keyboard works often reveal greatly differing approaches to the interpretation of this music. It is the writer's belief that exposure to the interpretative ideas of more than one person can help the student to discover the way in which he can perform a keyboard work by Bach most effectively. The student should not be limited to the ideas of his teacher, one editor such as Busoni or Mugellini, or one recording artist such as Gould or Landowska. I have selected a collection of keyboard pieces by Bach which is encountered by nearly every piano student at one time or another: the first volume of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Using a number of practical editions, commentaries on the works, and recent recordings, I have determined which are the most important disagreements in each prelude and fugue in the following areas relating to performance: (a) the general character of the piece, (b) tempo, (c)articulation and phrasing, and (d) dynamics. Discussion of these disagreements constitutes the main body of this dissertation. My principal goal is to provide the student with a number of performance possibilities for each piece. Perhaps the student will even be stimulated to search for possibilities yet untried. The proposition which underlies this entire study--that there is more than one way to play Bach--is not original, but the study is intended to supply firm support for this proposition. Resources used include: (a)practical editions of The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book One by Czerny, Tausig, Bischoff, Reinecke, Riemann (only partially available), Busoni, d'Albert, Tovey, Hughes, Risler, Mugellini, Rontgen, Casella, and Bartok; (b) relatively recent recordings by Landowska, Kirkpatrick, Galling, Demus, Gould, Tureck, and Martins; and (c)commentaries by Spitta, Riemann, Schweitzer, Fuller-Maitland, Macpherson, Gray, Landowska, Keller, and Bodky. The fourteen practical editions which were chosen by no means constitute all of the editions of The Well-Tempered Clavier. In fact, a list published in 1942 gives no less than 106 editions of the work printed up to that date. However, the fourteen editions selected span over 100 years, from the Czerny edition of 1837 to the Casella edition of 1946. There are also half a dozen nationalities represented in the group of editors, although seven of them are German. The eight recent recordings included in the study constitute most of the recordings of the complete Well-Tempered Clavier presently listed in the leading record catalogue. The commentaries span 85 years, from Spitta's biography of Bach published in 1880 to Keller's book Das Wohltemperierte Klavier von Johann Sebastian Bach published in 1965. An important secondary goal of this study is to ascertain whether there are any new approaches to the preludes and fugues in the modern performances as a group as opposed to the practical editions, which are representative of past eras of Bach-playing. These new approaches are summarized in the final chapter. In the presentation of the disagreements over interpretation, the practical editions and the modern recordings are always treated as two separate groups. This method of procedure has aided in the fulfillment of this important secondary goal. A further secondary goal is to compare the suggestions for performance made by modern scholars with the techniques actually used by modern performers. This is done in Section 2 of Chapter I and Section 2 of the final chapter. Every attempt has been made to avoid over-simplification, in the discussions of individual pieces as well as in the final chapter. For example, if in a particular passage most practical editions suggest a broad use of crescendo, a few editions show only one dynamic level, most recording artists use terrace dynamics, and one or two employ a discreet amount of crescendo, statements such as the following are avoided: "Unlike the heavily-shaded practical editions, modern performers use terrace dynamics in this passage." Tendencies are recognized only as tendencies and not as unanimous practices. This study is intended primarily as a reference guide for pianists interested in a particular prelude or fugue. In order that the reader receive maximum benefit, it is recommended that he have at hand an Urtext copy of The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book One, with numbered measures.
Download or read book Interpreting Historical Keyboard Music written by Andrew Woolley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in the field of keyboard studies, especially when intimately connected with issues of performance, is often concerned with the immediate working environments and practices of musicians of the past. An important pedagogical tool, the keyboard has served as the ’workbench’ of countless musicians over the centuries. In the process it has shaped the ways in which many historical musicians achieved their aspirations and went about meeting creative challenges. In recent decades interest has turned towards a contextualized understanding of creative processes in music, and keyboard studies appears well placed to contribute to the exploration of this wider concern. The nineteen essays collected here encompass the range of research in the field, bringing together contributions from performers, organologists and music historians. Questions relevant to issues of creative practice in various historical contexts, and of interpretative issues faced today, form a guiding thread. Its scope is wide-ranging, with contributions covering the mid-sixteenth to early twentieth century. It is also inclusive, encompassing the diverse range of approaches to the field of contemporary keyboard studies. Collectively the essays form a survey of the ways in which the study of keyboard performance can enrich our understanding of musical life in a given period.
Download or read book Interpreting Historical Keyboard Music written by Dr Andrew Woolley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in the field of keyboard studies, especially when intimately connected with issues of performance, is often concerned with the immediate working environments and practices of musicians of the past. An important pedagogical tool, the keyboard has served as the ‘workbench’ of countless musicians over the centuries. In the process it has shaped the ways in which many historical musicians achieved their aspirations and went about meeting creative challenges. In recent decades interest has turned towards a contextualized understanding of creative processes in music, and keyboard studies appears well placed to contribute to the exploration of this wider concern. The nineteen essays collected here encompass the range of research in the field, bringing together contributions from performers, organologists and music historians. Questions relevant to issues of creative practice in various historical contexts, and of interpretative issues faced today, form a guiding thread. Its scope is wide-ranging, with contributions covering the mid-sixteenth to early twentieth century. It is also inclusive, encompassing the diverse range of approaches to the field of contemporary keyboard studies. Collectively the essays form a survey of the ways in which the study of keyboard performance can enrich our understanding of musical life in a given period.
Download or read book C P E Bach written by Doris Powers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he is the son of J. S. Bach, C. P. E. Bach is an important composer in his own right, this long-awaited annotated bibliography presents a complete listing of the works of C. P. E. Bach. This volume in the Routledge Music Bibliographies series includes many different aspects of his work: the editing of his father's masterpieces, his concertos and sonatas and theoretical essays. Doris Powers also collects writings that consider C. P. E. Bach's influence, the reception of his works and the cultural milieu in which Bach composed.
Download or read book Did Bach Really Mean That written by Colin Booth and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Approach to Piano Transcriptions and Interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach s Music written by Arthur Briskier and published by New York : C. Fischer. This book was released on 1958 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
