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Joel Lester - Bach's Works for Solo Violin - 9780195171440 - V9780195171440
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Bach's Works for Solo Violin

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Description for Bach's Works for Solo Violin Paperback. J.S. Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin have been central to the violin repertoire since the mid-18th century. This introduction to these works explores their place within Bach's music, focusing on their structural and stylistic features as they have been perceived since their creation. Num Pages: 200 pages, numerous tables & music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH; AVRL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 294.
J. S. Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin have been central to the violin repertoire since the mid-eighteenth century. This engaging volume is the first comprehensive exploration of the place of these works within Bach's music: it focuses on their structural and stylistic features as they have been perceived since their creation. Joel Lester, a highly regarded scholar, teacher, violinist, and administrator, combines an analytical study, a full historical guide, and an insightful introduction to Bach's style. Individual movements are related to comparable movements by Bach in other media and are differentiated from superficially similar works from later eras. ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195171440
SKU
V9780195171440
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About Joel Lester
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Joel Lester is the Dean of the Mannes College of Music. He has been active in many areas of music education, scholarship, and performance for three decades. The author of several books, he is a former editor of Music Theory Spectrum.

Reviews for Bach's Works for Solo Violin
"The volume thus has a quadruple purpose, providing an analytical study and historical guide to Bach's solo-violin works, an introduction to Bach's style and its evolution and a forum for authoritative discussion of selected performance issues....will certainly assist violinists, students, scholars and other listeners to develop new perspectives on this music...and encourage the cultivation of more informed and more vivid ... Read more

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