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Playing Bach on the Keyboard: A Practical Guide [Hardcover]

Richard Troeger (Author)
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Directs the examination to the nonspecialist player, Feb 7 2004
This review is from: Playing Bach on the Keyboard: A Practical Guide (Hardcover)
In Playing Bach On The Keyboard, keyboardist and Bach specialist Richard Troeger takes a new look at the Bach keyboard music available - but directs his examination to the nonspecialist player, bringing in historical background and discussions of musical applications of the styles and instruments Bach employed. From the importance of notational details in understanding the composer's intentions to changes in norms between Bach's period and modern times, Playing Bach On The Keyboard provides classical musicians with a wonderful survey of issues in Bach's music
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dry, but helpful, Mar 16 2006
By J. Reed "thepianowhiz" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Playing Bach on the Keyboard: A Practical Guide (Hardcover)
This book summarizes many artistic elements of performing Bach, but in a very objective, matter-of-fact way. I found much useful content, but the delivery is very academic, and, in many cases, boring. A sense of humor or story-telling would ease reading, and this book has very little of either.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Directs the examination to the nonspecialist player, Feb 7 2004
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Playing Bach on the Keyboard: A Practical Guide (Hardcover)
In Playing Bach On The Keyboard, keyboardist and Bach specialist Richard Troeger takes a new look at the Bach keyboard music available - but directs his examination to the nonspecialist player, bringing in historical background and discussions of musical applications of the styles and instruments Bach employed. From the importance of notational details in understanding the composer's intentions to changes in norms between Bach's period and modern times, Playing Bach On The Keyboard provides classical musicians with a wonderful survey of issues in Bach's music
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