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Author: Edward Smith Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1291400850 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 70
Book Description
F. Couperin, in his preface to his trio-sonata L'Apothéose de Lully, declares that the work may be performed "in a satisfactory way" with two harpsichords instead of two violins and continuo, the players' right hands taking the upper parts, and the left hands doubling the bass. This is how he performs such works at home, he assures us, for "it is easier to find two harpsichords than three string instruments". The present transcriptions exploit the special sonority of the harpsichord, and the original works were selected for their multiple voices that could be distributed between the two instruments in a way to enrich the texture as much as possible. Rameau's colourful and unusual instrumentation is ideal for this sort of treatment, as is Vivaldi's quartet-concerto RV 107. The same composer's Op. 3 no. 7 for string trio plus strings and continuo had already been transcribed for organ by J. S. Bach, and seemed to invite a further elaboration to create the maximum sonority possible for two harpsichords.
Author: Edward Smith Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1291400850 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 70
Book Description
F. Couperin, in his preface to his trio-sonata L'Apothéose de Lully, declares that the work may be performed "in a satisfactory way" with two harpsichords instead of two violins and continuo, the players' right hands taking the upper parts, and the left hands doubling the bass. This is how he performs such works at home, he assures us, for "it is easier to find two harpsichords than three string instruments". The present transcriptions exploit the special sonority of the harpsichord, and the original works were selected for their multiple voices that could be distributed between the two instruments in a way to enrich the texture as much as possible. Rameau's colourful and unusual instrumentation is ideal for this sort of treatment, as is Vivaldi's quartet-concerto RV 107. The same composer's Op. 3 no. 7 for string trio plus strings and continuo had already been transcribed for organ by J. S. Bach, and seemed to invite a further elaboration to create the maximum sonority possible for two harpsichords.
Author: Michael Thomas Roeder Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 0931340616 Category : Concerto Languages : en Pages : 487
Book Description
A History of the Concerto may be read from cover to cover, but readers may also use the extensive index to focus on specific concertos and their composers. Numerous musical examples illuminate critical points. While some readers may want to study the more detailed analyses with scores in hand, this is not essential for an understanding of the text.
Author: C. R. F. Maunder Publisher: Boydell Press ISBN: 9781843830719 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
The concertos of Vivaldi, Bach, Handel and their contemporaries are some of the most popular, and the most frequently performed, pieces of classical music; and the assumption has always been they were full orchestral works. This book takes issue with this orthodox opinion to argue quite the reverse: that contemporaries regarded the concerto as chamber music. The author surveys the evidence, from surviving printed and manuscript performance material, from concerts throughout Europe between 1685 and 1750 (the heyday of the concerto), demonstrating that concertos were nearly always played one-to-a-part at that time. He makes a particularly close study of the scoring of the bass line, discussing the question of what instruments were most appropriate and what was used when. The late Dr RICHARD MAUNDER was Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.
Author: Richard D. P. Jones Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191503843 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 450
Book Description
This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Taking into account the vast increase in our knowledge of the composer due to the Bach scholarship of the last sixty years, Richard Jones presents a vivid and in some respects radically new picture of his creative development during the Cöthen (1717-23) and Leipzig years (1723-50). The approach is, as far as possible, chronological and analytical, but the author has also tried to make the book readable so that it may be accessible to music lovers and amateur performers as well as to students, scholars, and professional musicians. There are many good biographies of Bach, but this is the first, fully-comprehensive, in-depth study of his music making it indispensable for those who want to study specific pieces or learn how he developed as a composer.
Author: John Butt Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107493773 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 348
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Bach, first published in 1997, goes beyond a basic life-and-works study to provide a late twentieth-century perspective on J. S. Bach the man and composer. The book is divided into three parts. Part One is concerned with the historical context, the society, beliefs and the world-view of Bach's age. The second part discusses the music and Bach's compositional style, while Part Three considers Bach's influence and the performance and reception of his music through the succeeding generations. This Companion benefits from the insights and research of some of the most distinguished Bach scholars, and from it the reader will gain a notion of the diversity of current thought on this great composer.
Author: Robin Leaver Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315452790 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 637
Book Description
The Ashgate Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach provides an indispensable introduction to the Bach research of the past thirty-fifty years. It is not a lexicon providing information on all the major aspects of Bach's life and work, such as the Oxford Composer Companion: J. S. Bach. Nor is it an entry-level research tool aimed at those making a beginning of such studies. The valuable essays presented here are designed for the next level of Bach research and are aimed at masters and doctoral students, as well as others interested in coming to terms with the current state of Bach research. Each author covers three aspects within their specific subject area; firstly, to describe the results of research over the past thirty-fifty years, concentrating on the most significant and controversial, such as: the debate over Smend's NBA edition of the B minor Mass; Blume's conclusions with regard to Bach's religion in the wake of the 'new' chronology; Rifkin's one-to-a-vocal-part interpretation; the rediscovery of the Berlin Singakademie manuscripts in Kiev; the discovery of hitherto unknown manuscripts and documents and the re-evaluation of previously known sources. Secondly, each author provides a critical analysis of current research being undertaken that is exploring new aspects, reinterpreting earlier assumptions, and/or opening-up new methodologies. For example, Martin W. B. Jarvis has suggested that Anna Magdalena Bach composed the cello suites and contributed to other works of her husband - another controversial hypothesis, whose newly proposed forensic methodology requires investigation. On the other hand, research into Bach's knowledge of the Lutheran chorale tradition is currently underway, which is likely to shed more light on the composer's choices and usage of this tradition. Thirdly, each author identifies areas that are still in need of investigation and research.
Author: Alexander J. Morin Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 9780879306380 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 1220
Book Description
Encompassing more than five hundred classical composers past and present, this listener's guide to classical music discusses the best recordings of symphonies, operas, choral pieces, chamber music, and more by the world's leading composers as performed by a variety of outstanding musicians and conductors, and includes essays on the classical repertory, composers, instruments, and more. Original.
Author: Edward Smith
Author: Edward Smith
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Author: Michael Thomas Roeder
Author: C. R. F. Maunder
Author: Richard D. P. Jones
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