References to Vocal Music in the Sonata da Chiesa Discord Vis-a-Vis Chords in Bach's Time Interpreting the Adagio Movements Interpreting Bach's Violin Slurs
By: Heather DeRome, with thanks to Frank Koonce.
It is interesting to ponder Bach's alternating of the sonatas, which were based on music from the church, with the partitas, which were based on stylized dance movem ... Read More
Posted: May 16th, 2019
By: Heather DeRome, with thanks to Frank Koonce.
... discussing Bach’s music in terms of chords is a little ahead of his time because, in fact, Bach was not trained in harmony the same way as we now are trained. Read More
Posted: May 1st, 2019
By: Heather DeRome, with thanks to Frank Koonce.
In 1737, music critic Adolf Scheibe wrote that by notating the embellishments in his adagio movements, J.S. Bach "not only deprives his listeners of beauty and harmo ... Read More
Posted: April 19th, 2019
By: Frank Koonce
and Heather DeRome
This article is taken from the performance notes of our edition of the Sonatas and Partitas arranged for guitar. The edition has almost 30 ... Read More
Posted: March 10th, 2019
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