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With scholarship and the musical intuition of practiced performance, the author presents an internal reading of Bach's keyboard works. In the absence of interpretive directions, he seeks for clues to performance in the texture of the music itself, and his readings supply striking evidence that Bach was an accomplished law-breaker whenever tradition threatened to hamper his artistic insights. The eighty years from Bach's death to the year of Mendelssohn's revival of the St. Matthew Passion erased the first-hand knowledge of baroque music. Bach wrote for harpsichord and clavichord, and the interpretive potential of the piano has only obscured the salient characteristics of his work. This book is a welcome revelation of what devotion and skill can recover from the muddle of academics and Romantics. Not afraid to assert his personal convictions, the author points out that "although the problems of dynamics disappear with the solution of the instrument question, those of tempo, ornamentation, and articulation still remain? In our discussions of these problems it seems to us most imperative to separate as clearly as possible what we know to be fact from what is based only on personal int

Author

Erwin Bodky

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1960

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674733237