Playing Bach on the Keyboard: A Practical Guide (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781574670844)

In this concise and accessible volume, a noted keyboard artist and Bach specialist takes a fresh look at the performance of J. S. Bach's keyboard music. Addressing the nonspecialist player, Richard Troeger presents a wide range of historical information and discusses its musical applications. The author shares accounts of the musical styles Bach employed and the instruments he knew. In direct and pragmatic terms, he clarifies the importance of notational and style details as guides to the composer's intentions, particularly emphasizing changes in notational norms between Bach's time and the present. Troeger offers core information on dynamics, articulation, tempo, rhythm, ornamentation and accompaniment. He considers controversial issues as well, establishing the importance of the clavichord in Bach's milieu and examining the link between baroque music and rhetoric - a dramatic relationship that can bring great vitality to performance.

Author: Richard Troeger
ISBN-10: 1574670840
ISBN-13: 9781574670844
Publisher: Amadeus
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2003
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2004 pg. 1892