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Interpreting Bach at the keyboard / Paul Badura-Skoda ; translated by Alfred Clayton.

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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 ar...

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Main Author: Badura-Skoda, Paul
Other title:Bach-Interpretation. English.
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Bach, Johann Sebastian, > 1685-1750. > Harpsichord music.
Bach, Johann Sebastian, > 1685-1750. > Musique, > de clavecin.
Bach, Johann Sebastian, > 1685-1750 > Interprétations.
Harpsichord music > Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
Performance practice (Music) > History > 18th century.
Harpsichord music (Bach, Johann Sebastian)
Performance practice (Music)
History.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. General Problems of Interpretation. 1. An Authentic Eighteenth-Century Performance Source: C.F. Colt's Organ-Barrels. 2. Studies in Rhythm. 3. In Search of the Correct Bach Tempo. 4. Bach's Articulation. 5. Dynamics. 6. Problems of Sonority. 7. Problems of Harpsichord and Piano Technique, and of Expressive Playing. 8. The Urtext Problem: An Imaginary Interview. 9. Rendering the Structure as a Whole. 10. Prelude in E flat minor and Fugue in D sharp minor, WTC I, BWV 853. An Analysis for Performance
  • pt. II. Studies in Ornamentation. 11. Introduction. 12. The Development of Ornamentation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 13. J.S. Bach's Ornaments: Some General Remarks. 14. Pralltriller. 15. Appoggiaturas. 16. The Longer Trill. 17. Bach's Mordent. 18. Arpeggios. 19. The Application of Ornaments that are not Notated. 20. Free Embellishments in Bach's Keyboard Works. Appendix 1. Some Recommended Editions of Bach's Keyboard Works
  • Appendix 2. Some Textual and Interpretational Problems in Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903
  • Appendix 3. J.M. Gesner, 'Johann Sebastian Bach as Conductor, Keyboard Player, and Organist' (Gottingen, 1738)
  • Appendix 4. Excerpt from the Article 'Takt' in J.G. Sulzer's Allgemeine Theorie der schonen Kunste, vol. ii (Leipzig, 1774)
  • Appendix 5. The Dedication of Partita No. 1 (BWV 825) and the Dedicatory Poem.

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