Author: Quentin FaulknerPublisher: Concordia Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Discussion of various aspects of Bach's keyboard techniques with special emphasis on fingering.
The Organ
Author: Douglas Earl BushPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415941741
Category : Organ (Musical instrument)
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Organ, Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments, includes articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument builders, the construction of the instruments and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments that predated the piano. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instruments from around the world.
Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments
Author: Carl Philipp Emanuel BachPublisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393097160
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
J. S. Bach's musician son explains the technique for performing eighteenth-century compositions, discussing fingering, embellishments, bass, and accompaniment
The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach
Author: David SchulenbergPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136091467
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
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.
Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard
Author: Paul Badura-SkodaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Embellishment (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
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.
J. S. Bach, An Introduction to His Keyboard Music
Author: Johann Sebastian BachPublisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 1457443449
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
This diversified collection guides students to develop stylistic performances of Bach's keyboard works. Among the 27 selections are numerous menuets, "short" preludes and suite movements. The introductory material contains an excellent discussion of ornamentation, rhythm, articulation, tempo and dynamics in the keyboard music of this master composer.
Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments
Author: Carl Philipp Emanuel BachPublisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393097160
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
J. S. Bach's musician son explains the technique for performing eighteenth-century compositions, discussing fingering, embellishments, bass, and accompaniment
Historical Harpsichord Technique
Author: Yonit Lea KosovskePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253001455
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Yonit Lea Kosovske surveys early music and writing about keyboard performance with the aim of facilitating the development of an expressive tone in the modern player. Reviewing the work of the pedagogues and performers of the late Renaissance through the late Baroque, she gives special emphasis to la douceur du toucher or a gentle touch. Other topics addressed include posture, early pedagogy, exercises, articulation, and fingering patterns. Illustrated with musical examples as well as photos of the author at the keyboard, Historical Harpsichord Technique can be used for individual or group lessons and for amateurs and professionals.
The Well-Tempered Clavier
Author: Johann Sebastian BachPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486311848
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
All 48 preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys. Authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition. Explanation of ornaments in English, tempo indications, music corrections.
Playing Bach on the Keyboard
Author: Richard TroegerPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781574670844
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
(Amadeus). In this concise and accessible volume, a noted keyboard artist and Bach specialist takes a fresh look at the performance of J. S. Bach's keyboard music. Addressing the nonspecialist player, Richard Troeger presents a wide range of historical information and discusses its musical applications. The author shares accounts of the musical styles Bach employed and the instruments he knew. In direct and pragmatic terms, he clarifies the importance of notational and style details as guides to the composer's intentions, particularly emphasizing changes in notational norms between Bach's time and the present. Troeger offers core information on dynamics, articulation, tempo, rhythm, ornamentation and accompaniment. He considers controversial issues as well, establishing the importance of the clavichord in Bach's milieu and examining the link between baroque music and rhetoric a dramatic relationship that can bring great vitality to performance.
