These paperback editions makes Peter Williams's influential scholarship available to a wider field of readers, including those with an interest in the ever-expanding discussions of original instrumentation and its implications for modern performance. Professor Williams examines Bach's organ works piece-by-piece, reconstructing for the present-day performer and listener the original context of the work. Form and style are analysed, with abundant musical examples and frequent allusions to the views of other commentators. Each volume contains a preface, calendar, lists of musical sources and references, and an index.
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' ... indispensable to all organists and Bach-lovers ... any player will benefit from the greater understanding of the music a study of these volumes will provide.' Brio
' ... far more accurate, comprehensive and stimulating than any earlier account of its topic ... a magnificient step forward in the field of Bach organ literature.' Notes
' ... far more accurate, comprehensive and stimulating than any earlier account of its topic ... a magnificient step forward in the field of Bach organ literature.' Notes
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Taking account of Bach scholarship of the past twenty-five years, Peter Williams's classic study of Bach's organ works is fully revised. It provides a piece-by-piece commentary on this ever-popular repertoire, demonstrating the music's unique qualities and how we might hear and play it today. The book follows the order of the Bach catalog (BWV), beginning with the sonatas, followed by the "free works" and the chorales, and ending with the doubtful works, including the "newly discovered chorales" of 1985.
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six sonatas, musical offering, aria variata, triple concerto, fourteen canons, final pedal point, careful fair copy, final pedal entry, pedal cues, ritornello shape, pedal motif, opening pedal point, alla breve counterpoint, inversus forms, cantus line, organ motet, tonic entry, suspirans figure, quaver lines, octave imitation, irregular exposition, obbligato melody, sine pausa, crotchet lines, tonic entries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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six sonatas, musical offering, aria variata, triple concerto, fourteen canons, final pedal point, careful fair copy, final pedal entry, pedal cues, ritornello shape, pedal motif, opening pedal point, alla breve counterpoint, inversus forms, cantus line, organ motet, tonic entry, suspirans figure, quaver lines, octave imitation, irregular exposition, obbligato melody, sine pausa, crotchet lines, tonic entries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Herr Jesu Christ, Allein Gott, Art of Fugue, Schübler Chorales, Vom Himmel, Violin Sonata, Golden Section, Jesus Christus, North German, Johann Ernst, Goldberg Variations, Lamm Gottes, Lord God, Herr Gott, Herre Gott, Frescobaldi's Fiori, Holy Ghost, Kauffmann's Harmonische Seelenlust, Gottes Sohn, Lpz Poel, Plauener Orgelbuch, Liebster Jesu, Gott Vater, Christmas Oratorio, Gamba Sonata Browse Sample Pages:
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