The ever-increasing number of performances of Bach's music is a sign of its enduring vitality. But perhaps no other composer is subject to such a wide diversity of interpretation--assessing the merits of these many interpretations and unravelling the sources and documents on which they are based can be extremely difficult for the modern performer. In this important new book, Paul Badura-Skoda draws on forty years of studying and performing Bach to present startling new insights into many different aspects of Bach's music. He looks at rhythm, tempo, articulation, and dynamics; examines the instruments for which Bach's music was intended, and considers problems of sonority. He then discusses ornamentation in depth, analyzing each of the signs and symbols used by Bach, and argues that much of Bach's ornamentation in current performance is monotonous and fails to reflect the actual Baroque style. Sometimes contentious, always stimulating, Badura-Skoda's book conveys a passion for an informed interpretation of Bach's music based on a recognition and respect for Bach's actual intentions. Copiously illustrated with musical examples, the book will take its place as a standard work for all students and performers of Bach's ever-popular keyboard music.

Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard

Arts & Photography

Badura-Skoda, Paul

Clayton, Alfred

Music

Oxford University Press

The ever-increasing number of performances of Bach's music is a sign of its enduring vitality. But perhaps no other composer is subject to such a wide diversity of interpretation--assessing the merits of these many interpretations and unravelling the sources and documents on which they are based can be extremely difficult for the modern performer. In this important book, Paul Badura-Skoda draws on forty years of studying and performing Bach to present startling new insights into many different aspects of Bach's music. He looks at rhythm, tempo, articulation, and dynamics; examines the instruments for which Bach's music was intended, and considers problems of sonority. He then discusses ornamentation in depth, analyzing each of the signs and symbols used by Bach, and argues that much of Bach's ornamentation in current performance is monotonous and fails to reflect the actual Baroque style. Sometimes contentious, always stimulating, Badura-Skoda's book conveys a passion for an informed interpretation of Bach's music based on a recognition and respect for Bach's actual intentions. Copiously illustrated with musical examples, the book will take its place as a standard work for all students and performers of Bach's ever-popular keyboard music.

Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Clarendon Press

Text: English, German (translation)

Interpreting Mozart On The Keyboard (Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series)

Badura-Skoda, Eva

Da Capo Press

Interpreting Mozart: The Performance of His Piano Pieces and Other Compositions

Originally published in German as Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard in 1957, this definitive work on the performance of Mozart's works has greatly influenced students and scholars of keyboard literature and of Mozart. Now, in a completely updated and revised edition, this book includes the last half century of scholarship on Mozart's music, addressing the elements of performance and problems that may occur in performing Mozart's works on modern instruments.

Routledge

A Living Master Lesson on Mozart Sonata in A

Warner Bros Pubns

Paul Badura-Skoda, est l'un des plus grands interprètes pianistes actuels de Mozart. Attaché à l'étude minutieuse des sources et à la correction des éditions musicales largement fautives dont disposent le plus souvent les musiciens, Paul Badura-Skoda a procédé à nombre de révisions qui font désormais autorité; sa profonde connaissance des grands auteurs lui a permis de proposer d'excellentes cadences de plusieurs concertos de Mozart.Eva Badura-Skoda est une des très rares femmes à avoir tenu une chaire de musicologie dans une université américaine. Elle est aussi spécialiste des études mozartiennes; on lui doit plusieurs études marquantes dans les revues spécialisées.

L ART DE JOUER MOZART AU PIANO (MUSIQUE)

Buchet/Chastel

This concerto was unavailable for a long time, but now this Kalmus edition will bring it back to concert stages everywhere.

Piano Concerto No. 12, K. 414: in A Major

Humor & Entertainment

SCHOTT MUSIK INTL MAINZ

Bach-Interpretation: Die Klavierwerke Johann Sebastian Bachs (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Laaber-Verlag

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