Bach's works for solo violin : style, structure, performance
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Bach's works for solo violin : style, structure, performance
Oxford University Press, 1999
Available at 10 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-181) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book combines a performance guide for violinists, an analytical study, an exploration of Bach's style, and an investigation of musical form and continuity. J.S. Bach's three sonatas and three partitas for solo violin have been mainstays of the violin concert repertoire since the mid-nineteenth century; their long performance history, evidenced in recordings as well as in editions, offers an opportunity to study the ways in which notions of Baroque style have
evolved. Central to the book is the question what type of analysis is best applied to Bach's music: wherever possible, Lester draws his analytical tools from eighteenth-century techniques, developed for this repertoire.
Table of Contents
1: The History of Bach's Solo-Violin Works
2: The G-minor Adagio
3: The G-minor Fuga
4: The Siciliana of the G-minor Sonata
5: The G-minor Presto
6: The Partitas
7: Closing Thoughts
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