Playing Bach on the Keyboard
Playing Bach on the Keyboard

Author: Richard Troeger

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9781574670844

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(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.

Performing Bach's Keyboard Music
Performing Bach's Keyboard Music

Author: George A. Kochevitsky

Publisher: John Deere Publishing

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781577840008

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This text on performing Bach's keyboard music presents in capsule form the various opinions current in late-1990s musicology, approaching controversial questions from a critical point of view.

The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach
The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach

Author: David Schulenberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 1136091467

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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
Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard

Author: Paul Badura-Skoda

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13:

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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.

How to Play the Piano
How to Play the Piano

Author: James Rhodes

Publisher: The Experiment, LLC

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 1615195491

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Now you can master Bach’s most beautiful prelude—even if you’ve never sat down at a piano before! Do you have a piano (or keyboard) and forty-five spare minutes every day? Then spend the next six weeks with acclaimed concert pianist James Rhodes. By the end, you’ll be able to perform Bach’s Prelude No. 1 in C major—no prior musical experience required! Rhodes reveals How to Play the Piano step by step—how to read the treble and bass clefs as well as sharp and flat notes, and then how to practice—before teaching the Prelude in easy, bite-size segments. His method is free of tedious drills, and filled with inspiration: “If listening to music is soothing for the soul, then playing music is achieving enlightenment.” Before you know it, not only will you have learned how to play one of Bach’s most beloved masterpieces—you also will have unleashed your creativity, exercising your mind (and fingers) and accomplishing something you never thought possible. Bravo! Includes four instructional videos supported by select e-reader devices.

Bach's Well-tempered Clavier
Bach's Well-tempered Clavier

Author: David Ledbetter

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 0300128983

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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.

Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments
Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments

Author: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1949

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 9780393097160

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J. S. Bach's musician son explains the technique for performing eighteenth-century compositions, discussing fingering, embellishments, bass, and accompaniment

Engaging Bach
Engaging Bach

Author: Matthew Dirst

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-03-29

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0521651603

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Matthew Dirst examines the leading role of Bach's keyboard works in the creation of his historical legacy.

J. S. Bach, An Introduction to His Keyboard Music
J. S. Bach, An Introduction to His Keyboard Music

Author: Johann Sebastian Bach

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 2005-05-03

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1457443449

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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.