Bachs Feet

Author : David Yearsley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521199018
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach's Feet written by David Yearsley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yearsley explores the cultural significance of making music with hands and feet, a mode of performance unique to the organ.

Author : David Yearsley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139500112
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach's Feet written by David Yearsley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The organist seated at the king of instruments with thousands of pipes rising all around him, his hands busy at the manuals and his feet patrolling the pedalboard, is a symbol of musical self-sufficiency yielding musical possibilities beyond that of any other mode of solo performance. In this book, David Yearsley presents an interpretation of the significance of the oldest and richest of European instruments, by investigating the German origins of the uniquely independent use of the feet in organ playing. Delving into a range of musical, literary and visual sources, Bach's Feet demonstrates the cultural importance of this physically demanding mode of music-making, from the blind German organists of the fifteenth century, through the central contribution of Bach's music and legacy, to the newly-pedaling organists of the British Empire and the sinister visions of Nazi propagandists.

Author : David Gaynor Yearsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139223584
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach's Feet written by David Gaynor Yearsley and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yearsley explores the cultural significance of making music with hands and feet, a mode of performance unique to the organ.

Author : John Eliot Gardiner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385351984
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach written by John Eliot Gardiner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque—and occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents’ house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer’s greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime’s immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it, and explaining in wonderful detail the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects—and what it can tell us about Bach the man. Gardiner’s background as a historian has encouraged him to search for ways in which scholarship and performance can cooperate and fruitfully coalesce. This has entailed piecing together the few biographical shards, scrutinizing the music, and watching for those instances when Bach’s personality seems to penetrate the fabric of his notation. Gardiner’s aim is “to give the reader a sense of inhabiting the same experiences and sensations that Bach might have had in the act of music-making. This, I try to show, can help us arrive at a more human likeness discernible in the closely related processes of composing and performing his music.” It is very rare that such an accomplished performer of music should also be a considerable writer and thinker about it. John Eliot Gardiner takes us as deeply into Bach’s works and mind as perhaps words can. The result is a unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists.

Author : Russell Stinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197680445
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Afterlife of Bach's Organ Works written by Russell Stinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of J. S. Bach continues to be revered and celebrated centuries after his death. Its timelessness can be attributed to masterful musical engineering combined with profound expressivity. In other words, Bach's unique art may represent the pinnacle of contrapuntal technique, but it is just as amazing for its depth of emotion. Bach's compositions remain an indispensable part of the classical-music canon today. The Afterlife of Bach's Organ Works explores the critical impact made on posterity by Bach's organ music. It concerns a diverse group of musicians and non-musicians alike--some famous, some forgotten--who in one way or another became champions of these compositions. These individuals performed the music; edited it for publication; promoted it by means of books, articles, and reviews; transcribed it for other media; taught it to their pupils; shared it with their family and friends; and incorporated it into the soundtracks of their motion pictures. They ensured its "afterlife." In five chapters, organist and Bach expert Russell Stinson traces the historical afterlife of Bach's organ music from the early nineteenth century--the era of the so-called Bach revival--to the present day. Engagingly written and containing a wealth of information previously unavailable in English, the book is a history of performance practice, an aesthetic history of musical taste, and a social history. Each chapter tells the story of how and why Bach's organ works have stood the test of time.

Author : Richard Marschall
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 1595551085
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johann Sebastian Bach written by Richard Marschall and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the eyes of noted music and culture writer Rick Marschall, the intensely personal yet boldly public faith that earned Bach the nickname 'The Fifth Evangelist' takes on fresh meaning.

Author : Harvey Grace
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5884642857
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Organ Works of Bach written by Harvey Grace and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1951 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Schweitzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book J. S. Bach written by Albert Schweitzer and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Sanford Terry
Publisher : London, Oxford U. P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0J/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach written by Charles Sanford Terry and published by London, Oxford U. P. This book was released on 1928 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Authorities and abbreviations": p. [xvi]-xx.

Author : Albert Schweitzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The roots of Bach's art written by Albert Schweitzer and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: