Bach & the Art of Improvisation
Author: Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780983565703
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C.P.E. Bach
Author: David Schulenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 1351572806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second son of Johann Sebastian Bach, C.P.E. Bach was an important composer in his own right, as well as a writer and performer on keyboard instruments. He composed roughly a thousand works in all the leading genres of the period, with the exception of opera, and Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven all acknowledged his influence. He was also the author of a two-volume encyclopedic book about performance on keyboard instrument. C.P.E. Bach and his music have always been the subject of significant scholarship and publication but interest has sharply increased over the past two or three decades from performers as well as music historians. This volume incorporates important writings not only on the composer and his chief works but also on theoretical issues and performance questions. The focus throughout is on relatively recent scholarship otherwise available only in hard-to-access sources.
The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation
Author: John J. Mortensen
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0190920394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKeyboard artists in the time of J.S. Bach were simultaneously performers, composers, and improvisers. By the twentieth century, however, the art of improvisation was all but lost. Today, vanishingly few classically-trained musicians can improvise with fluent, stylistic integrity. Many now question the system of training that leaves players dependent upon the printed page, and would welcome a new approach to musicianship that would enable modern performers to recapture the remarkable creative freedom of a bygone era. The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation opens a pathway of musical discovery as the reader learns to improvise with confidence and joy. Useful as either a college-level textbook or a guide for independent study, the book is eminently practical. Author John Mortensen explains even the most complex ideas in a lucid, conversational tone, accompanied by hundreds of musical examples. Mortensen pairs every concept with hands-on exercises for step-by-step practice of each skill. Professional-level virtuosity is not required; players of moderate skill can manage the material. Suitable for professionals, conservatory students, and avid amateurs, The Pianist's Guide leads to mastery of improvisational techniques at the Baroque keyboard.
Free Play
Author: Stephen Nachmanovitch
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1991-05-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 144067308X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFree Play is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms. An international bestseller and beloved classic, Free Play is an inspiring and provocative book, directed toward people in any field who want to contact, honor, and strengthen their own creative powers. It reveals how inspiration arises within us, how that inspiration may be blocked, derailed or obscured, and how finally it can be liberated—how we can be liberated—to speak or sing, write or paint, dance or play, with our own authentic voice. Stephen Nachmanovitch, a pioneer in free improvisation, integrates material from a wide variety of sources among the arts, sciences, and spiritual traditions of humanity, drawing on unusual quotes, amusing and illuminating anecdotes, and original metaphors. The whole enterprise of improvisation in life and art, of recovering free play and awakening creativity, is about being true to ourselves and our visions. Free Play brings us into direct, active contact with boundless creative energies that we may not even know we had.
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
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJ. S. Bach's musician son explains the technique for performing eighteenth-century compositions, discussing fingering, embellishments, bass, and accompaniment
Museum Masterpieces, Book 4
Author: Catherine Rollin
Publisher: Alfred Music
Published: 2014-10-13
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 1470625075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Museum Masterpieces, Book 4, composer Catherine Rollin has created musical expressions of some of the great works of art found in museums throughout the world. The paintings that inspired these pieces are beautifully displayed on a four-page color insert at the center of the book, along with historical notes about each painting. Titles: *At the Front (George Cochran Lambdin) *Dancers (Theo van Doesburg) *Dancers, Pink and Green (Edgar Degas) *Improvisation (Childe Hassam) *The Kiss (Gustav Klimt) *States of Mind: The Farewells (Umberto Boccioni) *Summer (Thomas Dewing) *Watson and the Shark (John Singleton Copley)
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Volume I
Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher: Alfred Music
Published: 2005-05-03
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781457418280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA most impressive 220-page edition of the first volume of "The Well-Tempered Clavier," these 24 preludes and 24 fugues were painstakingly researched over a period of 10 years, using the most important original manuscript sources. Baroque scholar Willard A. Palmer's thorough introduction discusses fugal construction, articulation and other aspects of performance interpretation. Volume I of "The Well-Tempered Clavier" has been updated with a new "look" to match Volume II. This essential masterpiece is a "must-have" for all pianists.
The Art of Fugue
Author: Joseph Kerman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2015-06-23
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0520962591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries, in masses and motets, in orchestral and chamber music, and even in his sonatas for violin solo. The more intimate fugues he wrote for keyboard are among the greatest, most influential, and best-loved works in all of Western music. They have long been the foundation of the keyboard repertory, played by beginning students and world-famous virtuosi alike. In a series of elegantly written essays, eminent musicologist Joseph Kerman discusses his favorite Bach keyboard fugues—some of them among the best-known fugues and others much less familiar. Kerman skillfully, at times playfully, reveals the inner workings of these pieces, linking the form of the fugues with their many different characters and expressive qualities, and illuminating what makes them particularly beautiful, powerful, and moving. These witty, insightful pieces, addressed to musical amateurs as well as to specialists and students, are beautifully augmented by performances made specially for this volume: Karen Rosenak, piano, playing two preludes and fugues fromTheWell-Tempered Clavier—C Major, book 1; and B Major, book 2--and Davitt Moroney playing the Fughetta in C Major, BWV 952, on clavichord; the Fugue on "Jesus Christus unser Heiland," BWV 689, on organ; and the Fantasy and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 904, on harpsichord.
Improvisation Through Keyboard Harmony
Author: Sol Berkowitz
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMendelssohn's Musical Education
Author: R. Larry Todd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-04-21
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521246552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a study and critical edition of Mendelssohn's composition exercise book from his early period of study with Carl Friedrich Zelter (1819-1821). The workbook illustrates in considerable detail the young musician's struggle to master the rules of part writing and principles of counterpoint. Much of Zelter's systematic teaching method is grounded in the eighteenth-century theoretical tradition of Berlin; not surprisingly, the exercises bear the stamp of the music of J. S. Bach, which heavily influenced such Berlin musicians as C. P. E. Bach, C. F. C. Fasch, Marpurg, Kirnberger, Zelter and Mendelssohn. There is little doubt that the historicist attitude of the mature Mendelssohn - as seen in his efforts to revive the works of Bach and Handel and in his propensity toward strict contrapuntal techniques in his own music - was conditioned by these studies with Zelter. The publication of the workbook sheds new light on the early development of one ofthe most important nineteenth-century composers who, though affected by the new wave of romanticism that swept over Europe, never lost his respect for the past. No less important, the manuscript includes several previously unpublished pieces which rank among Mendelssohn's earliest compositions.
