Product Description
Schirmer Performance Editions are designed for piano students and their teachers as well as for professional pianists. Pedagogical in nature, these editions offer insightful interpretive suggestions, permanent fingering, and historical and stylistic commentary. Prepared by renowned artists/teachers, these publications provide an accurate, well-informed score resource for pianists. J.S. Bach (1685-1750) composed the Two-Part Inventions for his son Wilhelm Friedemann. While giving the player a superb example of musical construction, they also teach the basics of articulation, rhythm, phrasing, fingering, ornamentation, and the development of a singing tone. These short masterpieces are essential repertoire for every pianist. Editor and recording artist: Christopher Taylor ... Read more

Product Description
This diversified collection guides students to develop stylistic performances of Bach's keyboard works. Among the 27 selections are numerous menuets, ""short"" preludes and suite movements. The introductory material contains an excellent discussion of ornamentation, rhythm, articulation, tempo and dynamics in the keyboard music of this master composer.The Alfred Masterwork CD Editions conveniently combine each exceptional volume with a professionally recorded CD that is sure to inspire artistic performances. 64 pages.

PIanist Scott Price is the chair of the Piano Department at the University of South Carolina and holds a doctorate in piano performance from the University of Oklahoma. He has given master classes and recitals throughout the United States and Southeast Asia. His recordings are featured in Alfreds Premier Piano Course. ... Read more

Product Description
Goldberg Variations Book Piano By Johann Sebastian Bach Brand: Alfred Publishing Model Number: 00-K03043 ... Read more

Product Description
No Description provided. ... Read more

Product Description
An original concept: in one volume, a study-size score of a major musical work, and a comprehensive body of tools for the study of that work.

Music examples and charts illustrate the analyses, and each essay is fully annotated by the editor. In some cases, the results of the original research by the editor or by others working in the field are published here for the first time. Much of the material has never before appeared in English.

A score embodying the best available musical text.

Historical background—what is known of the circumstances surrounding the origin of the work, including (where relevant) original source material.

A detailed analysis of the music, by the editor of the volume or another well-known scholar.

Other significant analytic essays and critical comments, exposing the student to a variety of opinions about the music.

Product Description
No Description provided. ... Read more

Product Description
Great masterpieces of intense, appealing originality, complex textures and development, and unprecedented instrumentation. Scores include No. 1 in F Major, No. 2 in F Major, No. 3 in G Major, No. 4 in G Major, No. 5 in D Major, and No. 6 in B-flat Major. Reprinted from definitive Bach-Gesellschaft edition.
... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Another Small Book of Classical Music
This book is from an interesting collection of classical music, but it is too small to try an play the music from.My nephew explained to me after I bought it for him as a gift that the book is only intended for following along when listening to the music being played by others. Works for me! /// WEL

The best things come in small packages
This is an excellent miniature edition of Bach's Brandenburg Concerti.It has an interesting and informative preface, including a small list of variants from the MS.Moreover, the price is right, and while the print is extremely small, the engraving is very clear, making the edition easily readable.This is a very good deal. ... Read more

Product Description
Magnificent examples of the composer’s musical genius and mastery of the form. Reproduced from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition, this volume contains Suite No. 1 in C Major, Suite No. 2 in B Minor, Suite No. 3 in D Major, and Suite No. 4 in D Major.Instrumentation. Notes.
... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Bach is Best
Drift along with the maestro,at the peak of his art, you will understand his standing in the pantheon of the masters ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

An Excellent Biography of Bach for the Non-Specialist Reader
Every six months or so I find myself in a 'Bach period'; that is to say, I become immersed in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and don't seem to want any other kind of music for a while. I'm in the midst of one of these periods as I write this review. I came across this 1995 book at my local library and have been utterly delighted by it. Otto Bettmann, the author, is a non-musician who is best known for having founded the Bettmann Archive - you've seen its cutline hundreds of times alongside pictures in books and magazines - a comprehensive collection of historic pictures. He was born in Leipzig and in his childhood lived in a house across the street from the Thomaskirche where Bach spent twenty-seven years as Cantor. He even sang in the Thomaskirche boys' choir as a youth.

The lavishly illustrated 235-page book is organized like an encyclopedia with one- or two-page articles arranged alphabetically by subject. They cover the range of Bach's life and activities from 'Abendmusik' (the regular musical soirée held by Buxtehude in Lübeck where Bach visited and stayed four months) to 'Zeitgeist' (an article about the spirit of the times in which Bach lived and worked). Other representative articles include such topics as 'Anhalt-Cöthen,' 'Cantor or Capellmeister?,' 'Fugal Wizardry,' 'Goldberg Variations,' 'Kaffee Kantate,' 'Money Matters,' 'Organist Supreme,' 'Quaffing,' 'Summation Works,' 'Wanderlust,' among many others. One may read the book straight through or dip into it here and there; each method has its rewards. Bettmann's prose style is relaxed, entertaining, often wry, and yet factually solid and coherent. He repeatedly makes the point that Bach was a much livelier person than the usual picture we have of him as the stern Cantor of Leipzig.

Also included are a pleasant foreword by Martin Bookspan who, among other things, sings the praises of Otto Bettmann (who, by the way, wrote this book when he was in his 90s!; he died in 1998 at 95), a glossary of musical terms, a chronology of Bach's life, an index and an extensive bibliography.

This book is perfect for the general reader who doesn't have the background or the patience to read the more scholarly books on Bach by such illustrious biographers as Philipp Spitta, Albert Schweitzer, Karl Geiringer, or Christoph Wolff.

Scott Morrison ... Read more

Product Description
Probably no music publication in existence today has enjoyed so long a period of continued popularity and usefulness as this book.In the field of harmony, this collection has guided students and artists alike for over 150 years. During that time it has undergone only slight alteration. Contents:General preface to the ChoralesIndex of the chorales according to PageMusic: The 371 Chorales The 69 Chorale melodiesCommentary (on the 371) The 371 Chorale harmonizations Index of the 371 Chorales according to number Abbreviations used in the ensuing notes Notes on the 371 ChoralesCommentary (on the 69) The 69 Chorale melodies with figured bass Index of the 69 chorale melodies according to number ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Bach reflected in his own words and by his contemporaries
This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the life and music of J.S. Bach.Not only are there translations of every known piece of writing by him, and every important document about him, but many of his contemporaries and those in the following generation are quoted on their views of Bach's stature and achievement.There is also the complete text of the first biography of Bach, written in 1802 by J.N. Forkel and drawing on information from Bach's sons Friedemann and Emanuel.This book has so much valuable and fascinating information in such a small compass that music lovers will be drawn to it again and again

Excelent book
Through Bach's private documents you fin the real ma ... Read more

Product Description
No Description provided. ... Read more