Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music, with Special Emphasis on J.S. Bach - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music, with Special Emphasis on J.S. Bach write by Frederick Neumann. This book was released on 2020-05-05. Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music, with Special Emphasis on J.S. Bach available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ornaments play an enormous role in the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ambiguities in their notation (as well as their frequent omission in the score) have left doubt as to how composers intended them to be interpreted. Frederick Neumann, himself a violinist and conductor, questions the validity of the rigid principles applied to their performance. In this controversial work, available for the first time in paperback, he argues that strict constraints are inconsistent with the freedom enjoyed by musicians of the period. The author takes an entirely new look at ornamentation, and particularly that of J. S. Bach. He draws on extensive research in England, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States to show that prevailing interpretations are based on inadequate evidence. These restrictive interpretations have been far-reaching in their effect on style. By questioning them, this work continues to stimulate a reorientation in our understandiing of Baroque and post-Baroque music.
The Ornamentation of Baroque Music
The Ornamentation of Baroque Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ornamentation of Baroque Music write by Manfredo Zimmermann. This book was released on 2021-07-05. The Ornamentation of Baroque Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everything you want to know about embellishing Music of the Baroque Era is taught systematically and well-founded here: from the different "essential ornaments" such as trill, mordent, appoggiatura, slide, etc. up to the free melodic ornaments, cadenzas and improvised grounds. In addition, you will find valuable information, tips, constructive exercises, historical examples and much more. Exclusively you get a live recorded harpsichord-basso continuo accompaniment for all exercises, which supports you harmonically and rhythmically. For pupils, students, amateurs and professional musicians
Musical Ornamentation
Musical Ornamentation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Musical Ornamentation write by Edward Dannreuther. This book was released on 1893. Musical Ornamentation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-baroque Music
Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-baroque Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-baroque Music write by Frederick Neumann. This book was released on 1983-12-21. Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-baroque Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ornaments play an enormous role in the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ambiguities in their notation (as well as their frequent omission in the score) have left doubt as to how composers intended them to be interpreted. Frederick Neumann, himself a violinist and conductor, questions the validity of the rigid principles applied to their performance. In this controversial work, available for the first time in paperback, he argues that strict constraints are inconsistent with the freedom enjoyed by musicians of the period. The author takes an entirely new look at ornamentation, and particularly that of J. S. Bach. He draws on extensive research in England, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States to show that prevailing interpretations are based on inadequate evidence. These restrictive interpretations have been far-reaching in their effect on style. By questioning them, this work continues to stimulate a reorientation in our understandiing of Baroque and post-Baroque music.
Musical Ornamentation
Musical Ornamentation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Musical Ornamentation write by Edward Dannreuther. This book was released on 2015-02-18. Musical Ornamentation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A DEBT of gratitude is due to the author from pianists and musicians generally for this complete and careful collection of facts respecting musical ornamentation. It is true that of the "graces," to use the quaint old English term, many are already obsolete, while others are gradually disappearing. But, if only for the fact that Sebastian Bach makes extensive use of so many, they cannot be ignored. For the sake alone of that great musician, some of them must be understood : for it is only through clear comprehension of the letter that we can arrive at the spirit of that master, whose works, in spite of some antiquated embellishments, seem to defy the ravages of time. It is strange that though several books contain explanations concerning the execution of "graces," yet, as Mr. Dannreuther shows, in the practical application of the same, many puzzling questions arise. The history of the rise and progress of ornaments commences with Diruta's "Dialogo" and the Italian composers, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli and Merulo; and then a chapter is devoted to the famous "Parthenia, or the Maidenhead of the first Musicko that ever was printed for the Virginals." It is apparently among the early English masters that are to be found the earliest instances of a species of stenography to indicate ornaments in music for keyed instruments. Mr. Dannreuther has made an elaborate study of the "Parthenia" music, and his severe strictures on modern transcribers lead one to hope that he will one day bring out an ungarbled version of it. While ornaments constitute his special theme, he introduces many a pleasant aside: as, for instance, in the chapter on Dieupart's "Suittes de Clavecin," in which he demonstrates how Bach "transfigured and glorified" some of his predecessor's music. From Spitta we know how Bach admired Dieupart's "Suittes," but Mr. Dannreuther shows us what a practical form that admiration took. It would occupy many a column were we to attempt even to notice the points of special interest in this volume, but we must hasten on to the last chapter on Joh. Sebastian Bach, which occupies close on a quarter of the book. Mr. Dannreuther deals with a difficult matter in an astonishingly simple way, and students of Bach will find it a wonderful help in interpreting his clavier music. The few general precepts with which it opens seem at once to make many a rough place plain. The very first, respecting the diatonic character of Bach's ornaments, is of the utmost importance : we could mention the name of an illustrious pianist who, by non-observance of this simple precept, has robbed one of Bach's Fugues of much of its quaint dignity. With regard to shakes starting ex abrupto... -The Academy and Literature, Volume 43 [1893]
