Johann Sebastian Bach's "Goldberg Variations" Reimagined

Johann Sebastian Bach's
Author: Erinn E. Knyt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2024
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0197690629

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This book offers the first detailed reception history of adaptations of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations from 1800-2020. By focusing on ways the piece has been arranged, transcribed, and reworked, or quoted in in film, dance, literature, visual art, and digital media, it reveals changing views about the role of the composer and score that have impacted recent performance practices and notions of the work concept. Beyond this, it features the work of composers, many from underrepresented backgrounds, who have recently deconstructed Bach by reimagining the subjects, compositional procedures, and forms, using contemporary compositional approaches.

Bach: The Goldberg Variations

Bach: The Goldberg Variations
Author: Peter Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2001-09-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521001939

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Many listeners and players are fascinated by Bach's Goldberg Variations. In this wideranging and searching study, Professor Williams, one of the leading Bach scholars of our time, helps them probe its depths and understand its uniqueness. He considers the work's historical origins, especially in relation to all Bach's Clavierübung volumes and late keyboard works, its musical agenda and its formal shape, and discusses significant performance issues. In the course of the book he poses a number of key questions. Why should such a work be written? Does the work have both a conceptual and a perceptual shape? What other music is likely to have influenced the Goldberg and to what extent is it trying to be encyclopedic? What is the canonic vocabulary? How have contemporaries or musicians from Beethoven to the present day seen this work and, above all, how has its mysterious beauty been created?

Bach Perspectives, Volume 13

Bach Perspectives, Volume 13
Author: Laura Buch
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre: Music
ISBN: 025205251X

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Scholars and performers have long noted J.S. Bach's abundant use of parody procedures: that is, the recycling and reworking of pre-existing material from his own compositions or from other sources. Laura Buch edits essays exploring how the composer parodied the work of others and how other composers did the same with him. The contributors delve into the works of Baroque-era composers from Bach himself to C. P. E. Bach, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, and Ferruccio Busoni. But they also cast a wider net, investigating the ways Bach's music cross-pollinates with contemporary composer-performers John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet, and keyboardist Bernie Worrell and Parliament-Funkadelic. The diverse contexts illuminate a broad range of parody techniques, from structural scaffolding and contrapuntal elaboration to integration with stylistic languages far removed from the Baroque. An insightful look at how composers build on each other's work, Bach Reworked reveals how nuanced understandings of parody procedures can fuel both musical innovation and historically informed performance. Contributors: Stephen A. Crist, Ellen Exner, Moira Leanne Hill, Erinn E. Knyt, and Markus Zepf

Goldberg Variations BWV 988

Goldberg Variations BWV 988
Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2020-07-10
Genre:
ISBN:

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Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Piano Publisher: Roisber Narvaez Urtext Edition Medium: Softcover Piano Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Goldberg Variations

Goldberg Variations
Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1981
Genre: Variations (Piano)
ISBN:

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Goldberg Variations

Goldberg Variations
Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2020-12-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781716333927

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The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, is a set of variations for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach (1675 - 1750). The Goldberg Variations were first published in 1741. According to Bach's first biographer, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, the Goldberg Variations were allegedly composed to help the Russian ambassador to Saxony, Count Hermann Karl von Keyserling, with his insomnia. The variations name come from their original performer, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who was the Count's favourite harpsichordist.

Bach: the Goldberg Variations

Bach: the Goldberg Variations
Author: Peter F. Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2005
Genre: Bach
ISBN: 9789780807351

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