📗 Libro en inglés PLAYING BACH ON KEYBOARD: A PRACTICAL GUIDE

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. Whether on the harpsichord, clavichord, or today''s piano (and even allowing that it does its best for Bach�s music when played on its own terms), our performances can and should be informed by what Bach�s own instruments and practices have to tell us. Playing Bach on the Keyboard can help every keyboardist come closer to that ideal. Richard Troeger, harpsichordist, clavichordist, and fortepianist, has been heard throughout North America, in Europe, and on numerous radio broadcasts. He has taught at the University of Alberta and The King�s College, Edmonton. Troeger is the author of many articles on early performance practice and his book Technique and Interpretation on the Harpsichord and Clavichord (Indiana University Press, 1987) has become a standard reference. His groundbreaking recorded series Bach on Clavichord (Lyrichord Discs, New York) is the first integral recording of the solo keyboard works of J. S. Bach to use the clavichord as its basis, and presents the partitas, toccatas, The Art of Fugue, and other works in their recorded premieres on the clavichord.