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The Interpretation of Bach's Keyboard Works

by Erwin Bodky. 426 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Erwin Bodky

Publisher:

   Harvard University Press

Place of Publication:

  Cambridge, MA  

Publication Year:

  1960
Subjects:   Bach, Johann Sebastian,--1685-1750--Works, Keyboard
Table of contents
Contents
Introduction 1
1. Historical Review 5
2. The Instrument Question 31
The Instruments Used in the Inquiry 31
The Italian Concerto 33
The French Overture 40
The Goldberg Variations 43
Prelude of English Suite III in G minor 45
Toccata of Partita VI in E minor 48
The Welltempered Keyboard 54
Summary 86
3. Dynamic Problems 89
General Remarks 89
The Execution of Bach's Keyboard Works on the Piano 90
4. Tempo 100
Historical Review 103
Distribution of Time Signatures 109
Pieces in 4/4 Time (Table I) 115
Pieces in C + ⃓ Time (Table II) 125
Pieces in 2/4 Time (Table III) 127
Dance Pieces in C and C + ⃓ Time (Table IIf) 128
Pieces in ¾ Time (Table IV) 129
Pieces in 3/8 Time (Table V) 134
Pieces in 6/8, 9/8, and 12/8 Time (Tables VI, VII, VIII) 137
Pieces in 6/16, 12/16, and 24/16 Time (Table, IX) 140
Pieces in 6/4 and 3/2 Time (Table X) 141
Conclusions 143
5. Ornamentation 146
Historical Review 146
The Trill 150
Turn and Slide 170
The Mordent 170
The Appoggiatura 173
6. Conventional Alterations of Rhythms 183
Notes Inégales 183
Dotted Notes 186
7. Articulation 201
Historical Review 201
Links between Affect and Articulation 208
Authentic Slur Material 213
Conclusions 221
8. Symbolism 223
Historical Review 223
Tonality Problems 226
Allegory Problems 241
Cross Symbols 245
The Flight of Angels 248
Sanctus and Cradle Symbols 250
Miscellaneous Symbols 251
Number Symbolism 254
9. Final Remarks 259
Appendices 263
A. Suggestions for the Interpretation of Bach's Keyboard Works 265
B. Music Tables 343
Selective Bibliography 401
Index 409
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Book by Wilibald Gurlitt, Oliver C. Rupprecht; Concordia Publishing, 1957
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The Interpretation of Bach's Keyboard Works
Book by Erwin Bodky; Harvard University Press, 1960
Subjects: Bach, Johann Sebastian--1685-1750--Works, Keyboard
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Johann Sebastian: A Tercentenary Celebration
Book by Seymour L. Benstock; Greenwood Press, 1992
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The Bach Manuscripts of Johann Peter Kellner and His Circle: A Case Study in Reception History
Book by Russell Stinson; Duke University Press, 1990
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Texts and Contexts: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Bach Biography
Journal article by Robert L. Marshall; Musical Quarterly, Vol. 84, 2000
Subjects: Music
...Lebensgeschichte Johann Sebastian Bachs, 1685-1750, Bach-Dokumente 2 (Kassel...Bachs early keyboard works. See the discussion...and the Andreas Bach Book: Two Keyboard Anthologies from...Circle of the Young Johann Sebastian Bach (Ph.D. diss...


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Bach the Unknowable
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...two masters, the name Johann Sebastian Bach produces no popular image at all. Yet Bach (1685-1750) is the "father of Western...been only rarely used in keyboard playing, but he pioneered...Two of his greatest works, the Mass in B minor...
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Bach: Ad Majorem Dei Gloria
Magazine article by Tom Pniewski; World and I, Vol. 15, March 2000
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Bach, Johann Sebastian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN sabas tyan bakh, 1685 1750, German composer...vigorous works in almost...family (see Bach , family...his brother Johann Christoph...especially keyboard works: the...Leipzig when Bach was a candidate...principal keyboard works of this period...Bettmann, Johann Sebastian Bach as His World...
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Pachelbel, Johann
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...significant influence on the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach . Two of Pachelbels sons, Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, c.1685 1764, b. Erfurt, and Carl Theodorus Pachelbel, 1690 1750, were also musicians and composers...


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