Chapter One
... his essay contains many mistakes and weaknesses – for example, he praises Bach’s “profound works” as compared with Vivaldi’s “galant style” – he supplies a wealth of information, many biographical details, and an analysis unheard of at the time, making this the first truly serious attempt at underst ...
... his essay contains many mistakes and weaknesses – for example, he praises Bach’s “profound works” as compared with Vivaldi’s “galant style” – he supplies a wealth of information, many biographical details, and an analysis unheard of at the time, making this the first truly serious attempt at underst ...
A History of Western Music
... Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) (cont’d) ■ Harpsichord music: masterpieces in every current genre (cont’d) § each book consists of twenty-four prelude and fugue pairs in each major and minor key § arranged in rising chromatic order § demonstrate possibilities of playing in all keys, neareq ...
... Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) (cont’d) ■ Harpsichord music: masterpieces in every current genre (cont’d) § each book consists of twenty-four prelude and fugue pairs in each major and minor key § arranged in rising chromatic order § demonstrate possibilities of playing in all keys, neareq ...
In his time, Telemann was the most renowned of German musicians
... you already have a century-long tradition of this kind of hackwork. The original Grove article, by Alfred Maczewski, is the most venomous of all, and long-lived. I traced it through all the subsequent issues and found that in 1954, Grove was still using the old nineteenth-century article with very f ...
... you already have a century-long tradition of this kind of hackwork. The original Grove article, by Alfred Maczewski, is the most venomous of all, and long-lived. I traced it through all the subsequent issues and found that in 1954, Grove was still using the old nineteenth-century article with very f ...
J.S. BACH - THE ART OF FUGUE Few works by Johann Sebastian
... So, in May 1751, in the “Critische Nachrichten aus dem Reiche der Gelehsamkeit” the readers were kindly invited to subscribe to The Art of Fugue. The first edition appeared in the autumn of the same year in Leipzig. A second edition followed in the spring of 1752 with an introduction written by the ...
... So, in May 1751, in the “Critische Nachrichten aus dem Reiche der Gelehsamkeit” the readers were kindly invited to subscribe to The Art of Fugue. The first edition appeared in the autumn of the same year in Leipzig. A second edition followed in the spring of 1752 with an introduction written by the ...
Bach and the Development of the Fugue
... harmony in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, was the solidification of the principles of voice leading. Through the polyphonic texture of his fugues, Bach was able to create smooth voice leading that emphasized tonality and functional harmony; through a study of practices he employed in ...
... harmony in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, was the solidification of the principles of voice leading. Through the polyphonic texture of his fugues, Bach was able to create smooth voice leading that emphasized tonality and functional harmony; through a study of practices he employed in ...
MP3103_02_Gjerdingen 192..204
... Latin as a series of “points” (puncta), after the black dots or small squares used to mark the musical notes. For the most sacred ceremonies, skilled singers would embellish the chant with one or more additional auditory streams. This was sometimes described as setting “a point against a point” (pun ...
... Latin as a series of “points” (puncta), after the black dots or small squares used to mark the musical notes. For the most sacred ceremonies, skilled singers would embellish the chant with one or more additional auditory streams. This was sometimes described as setting “a point against a point” (pun ...
TRADITION AND INDIVIDUAL STYLE IN THE MOTETS OF J.S. BACH
... and brevity.Bach was not expected to provide this -minor part of the service. Indeed, these motets were conducted by the student prefect and sung by the "motet choir", which Bach considered his second best (3, 295). These circumstances explain why none of the extant motets seem to have been written ...
... and brevity.Bach was not expected to provide this -minor part of the service. Indeed, these motets were conducted by the student prefect and sung by the "motet choir", which Bach considered his second best (3, 295). These circumstances explain why none of the extant motets seem to have been written ...
Kontos 1 Michael Kontos Harry Davidson Music 89S
... his desire to improvise were his short organ pieces. When Bach first began performing music as an organist, it was said that often times, the chorus within the church he performed in would become lost because his rendition of the piece would move in directions they did not recognize. One of his p ...
... his desire to improvise were his short organ pieces. When Bach first began performing music as an organist, it was said that often times, the chorus within the church he performed in would become lost because his rendition of the piece would move in directions they did not recognize. One of his p ...
Bach Handel Wigs
... As a child, Bach’s father taught him to play violin and harpsichord. His uncles were all musicians, serving as church organists and court chamber musicians. One of his uncles, Johann Christoph, introduced him Johann Ambrosius Bach to the art of organ playing. Johann Sebastian's father ...
... As a child, Bach’s father taught him to play violin and harpsichord. His uncles were all musicians, serving as church organists and court chamber musicians. One of his uncles, Johann Christoph, introduced him Johann Ambrosius Bach to the art of organ playing. Johann Sebastian's father ...
pour La Luth ò Cembal
... If Bach owned a lute-harpsichord during the period in which the Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro was written, we may speculate that the instrument might have been important in the actual reading of the work if not the performance of it. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach once wrote that his father typically compo ...
... If Bach owned a lute-harpsichord during the period in which the Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro was written, we may speculate that the instrument might have been important in the actual reading of the work if not the performance of it. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach once wrote that his father typically compo ...
1 Book review: Schulenberg, David. The Music of Wilhelm
... Complete Works have yet to appear and so much has yet to be weathered in performance. I wondered how much repeated comments about “rambling” and inadequate reprise elements reflect formal concepts that do not quite match those of the composer. The discussion of the eight fugues for keyboard (1778) c ...
... Complete Works have yet to appear and so much has yet to be weathered in performance. I wondered how much repeated comments about “rambling” and inadequate reprise elements reflect formal concepts that do not quite match those of the composer. The discussion of the eight fugues for keyboard (1778) c ...
J.S. Bach`s Influence on Piano Pedagogy
... accomplishment when they are played, no matter how simple. In no way does it make sense to give beginning pianists dull music. It gives them no reason to want to continue studying. For example, Bach’s prelude number 1 in C major from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 is a very simple piece, and it i ...
... accomplishment when they are played, no matter how simple. In no way does it make sense to give beginning pianists dull music. It gives them no reason to want to continue studying. For example, Bach’s prelude number 1 in C major from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 is a very simple piece, and it i ...
Chord Conundrum: Examining the Performance
... Bach, while as a performer best remembered for his harpsichord, ...
... Bach, while as a performer best remembered for his harpsichord, ...
Continuo Realization at the Cello-1
... reinforced in a purely melodic manner). This harmonic use for the cello runs counter to our modern perception of it as a melodic instrument (paradoxically, modern solo compositions make extensive use of its harmonic possibilities). Implicit in this knowledge is the responsibility that cellists s ...
... reinforced in a purely melodic manner). This harmonic use for the cello runs counter to our modern perception of it as a melodic instrument (paradoxically, modern solo compositions make extensive use of its harmonic possibilities). Implicit in this knowledge is the responsibility that cellists s ...
The Bach Cello Suites - a case study
... There are several distinct challenges that the twenty-first-century cellist must address with respect to the Bach Suites, however. Perhaps the most significant of these is the absence of an autograph version of the Suites. Cellists are forced to consider four eighteenth-century manuscripts when maki ...
... There are several distinct challenges that the twenty-first-century cellist must address with respect to the Bach Suites, however. Perhaps the most significant of these is the absence of an autograph version of the Suites. Cellists are forced to consider four eighteenth-century manuscripts when maki ...
Baroque music performance: “authentic” or “traditional”
... Excitement in the cultural world of Berlin mounted as the great day approached, for the choirs, three or four hundred strong, had passed the word round that the work was a revelation: that old Bach was after all capable of drama, passion and melodiousness; that here was 'an architectonic grandeur of ...
... Excitement in the cultural world of Berlin mounted as the great day approached, for the choirs, three or four hundred strong, had passed the word round that the work was a revelation: that old Bach was after all capable of drama, passion and melodiousness; that here was 'an architectonic grandeur of ...
Gr 5 Unit 1 Reading Comp Practice
... During his life, J.S. Bach was not as popular as Beethoven and Mozart were during their lifetimes. His music was considered hard to understand and even harder to play. Although Bach wrote more than 1,000 pieces of music, very few were published while he was alive. An employer originally rejected5 on ...
... During his life, J.S. Bach was not as popular as Beethoven and Mozart were during their lifetimes. His music was considered hard to understand and even harder to play. Although Bach wrote more than 1,000 pieces of music, very few were published while he was alive. An employer originally rejected5 on ...
Grade 5 Reading Comprehension Practice Set 1 Use this table to
... During his life, J.S. Bach was not as popular as Beethoven and Mozart were during their lifetimes. His music was considered hard to understand and even harder to play. Although Bach wrote more than 1,000 pieces of music, very few were published while he was alive. An employer originally rejected5 on ...
... During his life, J.S. Bach was not as popular as Beethoven and Mozart were during their lifetimes. His music was considered hard to understand and even harder to play. Although Bach wrote more than 1,000 pieces of music, very few were published while he was alive. An employer originally rejected5 on ...
Yeung 1 Bach`s influence in keyboard music by Motin
... As a result, when performing Bach’s pieces, performers should be careful with the way Bach wanted the piece to be performed. Proportions of Length Many musicians praise Bach for the “numerical symbolism and mathematical exactitude” (classical net) in his music. Bach planned his music in a mathematic ...
... As a result, when performing Bach’s pieces, performers should be careful with the way Bach wanted the piece to be performed. Proportions of Length Many musicians praise Bach for the “numerical symbolism and mathematical exactitude” (classical net) in his music. Bach planned his music in a mathematic ...
Bach`s Music and Newtonian Science
... composition can only be guided by the classical true-false logic. The element of individuality plays too decisive a role in all artistic endeavours, both pre- and post-Enlightenment. Yet Bach's music, his life's work, in part subconsciously and in part consciously, was affected more than that of any ...
... composition can only be guided by the classical true-false logic. The element of individuality plays too decisive a role in all artistic endeavours, both pre- and post-Enlightenment. Yet Bach's music, his life's work, in part subconsciously and in part consciously, was affected more than that of any ...
Did Bach influence Chopin in his Mazurka op. 50, 3?
... score he took with him to Majorca in the winter of 1838−39, at the time he was completing his 24 Preludes op. 28 which seem to recall Bach’s work. It stands to reason that there has to be some influence of Bach on Chopin’s compositional style. But what is that influence? Could Chopin’s compositional ...
... score he took with him to Majorca in the winter of 1838−39, at the time he was completing his 24 Preludes op. 28 which seem to recall Bach’s work. It stands to reason that there has to be some influence of Bach on Chopin’s compositional style. But what is that influence? Could Chopin’s compositional ...
text - Baroque Music Page
... Buxtehude's Passacaglia probably owes its survival to Bach, for its only known source is the so-called Andreas BachBuch, a manuscript in the hand of Bernhard Bach, the brother of Andreas and also a nephew of Johann Sebastian from whom he received his musical education. The origin of the Passacaglia ...
... Buxtehude's Passacaglia probably owes its survival to Bach, for its only known source is the so-called Andreas BachBuch, a manuscript in the hand of Bernhard Bach, the brother of Andreas and also a nephew of Johann Sebastian from whom he received his musical education. The origin of the Passacaglia ...
Antonio Vivaldi was an Italian composer, a Catholic priest, and an
... He was also famous for his cantatas as he was a very religious man. Bach wrote hundreds of cantatas and became well known as an organist and composer of church music. In 1723 Bach became the director of music for the city of Leipzig, Germany. “This was probably Sebastian’s busiest time. He was resp ...
... He was also famous for his cantatas as he was a very religious man. Bach wrote hundreds of cantatas and became well known as an organist and composer of church music. In 1723 Bach became the director of music for the city of Leipzig, Germany. “This was probably Sebastian’s busiest time. He was resp ...
Bach House (Eisenach)
The Bach House in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany, is a museum dedicated to the composer Johann Sebastian Bach who was born in the city. On its 600 m² it displays around 250 original exhibits, among them a Bach music autograph. The core of the building complex is a half-timbered house, ca. 550 years old, which was mistakenly identified as Bach's birth house in the middle of the 19th century. In 1905, the Leipzig-based Neue Bachgesellschaft acquired the building. In 1907, it was opened as the first Bach museum.