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Interpreting Bach's Well-tempered Clavier

Author : Ralph Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300038934
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Bach's Well-tempered Clavier written by Ralph Kirkpatrick and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets forth the provocative theories of a musician who has been called the outstanding harpsichordist of this century. The late Ralph Kirkpatrick reveals here his approach to a deeper comprehension of music, showing how his methods are applied to the preludes and fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier of J.S. Bach. "This book is brilliant and important."--Clavier "All keyboardists performing classical repertoire can greatly benefit from Kirkpatrick's scholarship, dry wit, and stubborn dedication."--Keyboard "That Mr. Kirkpatrick's extraordinarily perceptive mind knew the subject matter thoroughly is beyond dispute. . . Valuable insights into the analysis, teaching and performance of all Western music, especially Bach's monumental Well-Tempered Clavier."--Arthur Lawrence, The American Organist "We are fortunate to have this book by Ralph Kirkpatrick. . . From it we gain insight into the musical mind of one of the outstanding performers of our century."--The Music Review "The real matter of the book is good old-fashioned musicianship."--Denis Arnold, London Review of Books

Ralph Kirkpatrick

Author : Ralph Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580465013
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Ralph Kirkpatrick written by Ralph Kirkpatrick and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of letters to and from the eminent harpsichordist, scholar, and early-music pioneer Ralph Kirkpatrick provides a portrait of the musician from the beginning of his career in Paris in the 1930s to its end in the early 1980s, offering new insights into his work and scholarship. The volume contains letters from Europe to his family as well as correspondence with harpsichord makers, performers, and composers, including Nadia Boulanger, Alexander Schneider, John Kirkpatrick, Elliott Carter, Henry Cowell, John Challis, Kenneth Gilbert, Serge Koussevitzky, and Vincent Persichetti. In addition, two former students of Kirkpatrick, the guitarist Eliot Fisk and the harpsichordist Mark Kroll, write about their experiences studying with Kirkpatrick in a foreword and an afterword. The volume also includes a bibliography of publications by and about the musician, as well as a discography. MeredithKirkpatrick is a librarian and bibliographer at Boston University and is the niece of Ralph Kirkpatrick.

Ralph Kirkpatrick

Author : Meredith Kirkpatrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ralph Kirkpatrick written by Meredith Kirkpatrick and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Domenico Scarlatti

Author : Ralph Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691216142
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Domenico Scarlatti written by Ralph Kirkpatrick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Again available in paperback, this definitive work on the genius of Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is the result of twelve years of devoted effort by America's foremost harpsichordist and one of the principal authorities on eighteenth-century harpsichord music. Mr. Kirkpatrick traveled extensively to collect material that has tripled the known facts about Scarlatti's life, providing the first adequate biography of one of the greatest harpsichord composers of the eighteenth century and one of the most original composers of all time. The second half of his book is an illuminating study of Scarlatti's 555 sonatas, concluding with a chapter on their performance. The book contains extensive appendixes, including discussions of ornamentation and Scarlatti's vocal music, and an updated section of addenda and corrigenda.

Sixty Sonatas (Urtext), Vol 2

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Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780757918568
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Sixty Sonatas (Urtext), Vol 2 written by and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1985-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expertly arranged Piano Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti from the Kalmus Edition series. These Sonatas are from the Baroque era.

Reflections of an American Harpsichordist

Author : Ralph Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580465919
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Reflections of an American Harpsichordist written by Ralph Kirkpatrick and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents previously unpublished memoirs (1933-77), lectures, and essays by the eminent harpsichordist and scholar Ralph Kirkpatrick.

Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning

Author : Philip Kennicott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635376
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning written by Philip Kennicott and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize–winning critic’s “lyrical and haunting” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) reflection on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork. As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn’t seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. For him, Bach’s music held the elements of both joy and despair, life and its inevitable end. He spent the next five years trying to learn one of the composer’s greatest keyboard masterpieces, the Goldberg Variations. In Counterpoint, he recounts his efforts to rise to the challenge, and to fight through his grief by coming to terms with his memories of a difficult, complicated childhood. He describes the joys of mastering some of the piano pieces, the frustrations that plague his understanding of others, the technical challenges they pose, and the surpassing beauty of the melodies, harmonies, and counterpoint that distinguish them. While exploring Bach’s compositions he sketches a cultural history of playing the piano in the twentieth century. And he raises two questions that become increasingly interrelated, not unlike a contrapuntal passage in one of the variations itself: What does it mean to know a piece of music? What does it mean to know another human being?

Harpsichord in America

Author : Larry Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780253208408
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Harpsichord in America written by Larry Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Das Wohltemperierte Klavier II

Author : Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher : Koenemann
ISBN 13 : 9783741914195
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Das Wohltemperierte Klavier II written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by Koenemann. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soft bound music score for piano.

Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators

Author : Rob Kirkpatrick
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803224753
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators written by Rob Kirkpatrick and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A three-time All-Star, Cecil Travis (1913–2006) was well on his way to a Hall of Fame career when he was drafted for World War II in 1941. When he returned To The game in 1945, after three and a half years in the army, Travis was no longer the dominant player he had been. In the three seasons that followed—the last of his career—only once did Travis play in more than seventy-five games, and his offensive numbers plummeted. Yet his prewar accomplishments were such that he finished his twelve-year career with a .314 batting average, and baseball maven Bill James put Travis atop his list of players most likely to have lost a Hall of Fame career To The war. This biography documents Travis's life and dynamic career. it recounts his childhood years on his family's Riverdale farm in rural Georgia, his demonstration of talent during high school, The beginning of his professional career with the Minor League Chattanooga Lookouts in 1931, his rise with the Washington Senators, The historic 1941 season in which Travis led all of baseball in hits, his time as a soldier, The decline in his play from 1945 to 1947, and his retirement. In an epilogue Cecil Travis comments on his baseball career, The effects of the war, and his life in Riverdale, where he raised livestock on the farm that was his childhood home.

Domenico Scarlatti: 30 Sonatas

Author : Fabio Zanon
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619113066
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Domenico Scarlatti: 30 Sonatas written by Fabio Zanon and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exact contemporary of Bach and Handel, Domenico Scarlatti was already a celebrated composer in Italy by the time he moved to Portugal. Later he traveled to Spain, where he worked as a harpsichord instructor for Princess Maria Barbara. The lessons he wrote for her are among the most imaginative and unpredictable pieces from the whole baroque period. His music translates very well to the guitar, an instrument where his style is completely at home. This set of 30 sonatas transcribed by acclaimed guitarist Fabio Zanon includes new transcriptions of all-time favorites and some rarer ones as well.

Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier

Author : Marjorie Wornell Engels
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078642544X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier written by Marjorie Wornell Engels and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a musical language involving symbols, numbers, and tonality, J.S. Bach created emotional dimension in the preludes and fugues of The Well-Tempered Clavier. This book explores the use of that musical language, revealing how Bach used harmonic design and melodic and rhythmic motivic formulas to adhere to the basic doctrine of the Theory of Affects--i.e., that one mood will govern one piece. The book examines the significance of key and the emotional dimension Bach discerned in each tonality; the symbolism of melodic and rhythmic motifs; and the symbolism of numbers. It considers the thematic and rhythmic links between a prelude and its companion fugue in each book, and between a prelude and fugue in Book One and those in the same key in Book Two. It also includes reference to other instrumental works by Bach in the same key and melodic patterns.

1969

Author : Rob Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1626366179
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book 1969 written by Rob Kirkpatrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the fortieth anniversary of 1969, Rob Kirkpatrick takes a look back at a year when America witnessed many of the biggest landmark achievements, cataclysmic episodes, and generation-defining events in recent history. 1969 was the year that saw Apollo 11 land on the moon, the Cinderella stories of Joe Namath’s Jets and the “Miracle Mets,” the Harvard student strike and armed standoff at Cornell, the People’s Park riots, the first artificial heart transplant and first computer network connection, the Manson family murders and cryptic Zodiac Killer letters, the Woodstock music festival, Easy Rider, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, the Battle of Hamburger Hill, the birth of punk music, the invasion of Led Zeppelin, the occupation of Alcatraz, death at Altamont Speedway, and much more. It was a year that pushed boundaries on stage (Oh! Calcutta!), screen (Midnight Cowboy), and the printed page (Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex), witnessed the genesis of the gay rights movement at Stonewall, and started the era of the “no fault” divorce. Richard Nixon became president, the New Left squared off against the Silent Majority, William Ayers co-founded the Weatherman Organization, and the nationwide Moratorium provided a unifying force in the peace movement. Compelling, timely, and quite simply a blast to read, 1969 chronicles the year through all its ups and downs, in culture and society, sports, music, film, politics, and technology. This is a book for those who survived 1969, or for those who simply want to feel as alive as those who lived through this time of amazing upheaval.

Domenico Scarlatti

Author : Ralph Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Domenico Scarlatti written by Ralph Kirkpatrick and published by Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1953 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Because Domenico Scarlatti left almost no personal records and because his brilliant and erratic keyboard style has never been entirely understood, he has suffered a neglect unsurpassed in the literature of music for a composer of his stature. Now after two hundred years he finds in this first full-length biography his greatest opportunity to become known. This rediscovery of Scarlatti gains special significance from the fact that it has been made by a celebrated harpsichordist to satisfy his own need for a fuller understanding of a favorite composer. 'At all times,' writes Ralph Kirkpatrick, 'my interest has been that of a performer of Scarlatti who wishes to leave no source of information or enlightenment untouched that might affect a conception of his music.' Through his discoveries, the known facts of Scarlatti's life have been more than tripled. Through his reconstruction of the background of events, persons, and places, so penetrating an insight is gained into the composer's career that the point of view seems to be Scarlatti's and the bare outlines of biography afforded by the documents are filled in as if by a contemporary hand. The second half of the book is an illuminating study of Scarlatti's 555 sonatas, most of them the astonishing harvest of the last few years of his life and his finest achievement. The last chapter on the performance of the sonata bears the authority of the writer's almost unique position as both a scholar and a world-famous performing artist."--Dust jacket.

Goldberg variations, BWV988 [registro sonoro]

Author : Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Goldberg variations, BWV988 [registro sonoro] written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Billie Holiday

Author : Donald Clarke
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786730870
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Billie Holiday written by Donald Clarke and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. "Now, finally, we have a definitive biography," said Booklist of Donald Clarke's Billie Holiday, "by a deeply compassionate, respectful, and open-minded biographer [whose] portrait embraces every facet of Holiday's paradoxical nature, from her fierceness to her vulnerability, her childlikeness to her innate elegance and amazing strength." Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s—interviews with those who knew Lady Day from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore through the early days of success in New York and into the years of fame, right up to her tragic decline and death at the age of forty-four. Clarke uses these interviews to separate fact from fiction and, in the words of the Seattle Times, "finally sets us straight. . .evoking her world in all its anguish, triumph, force and irony." Newsday called this "a thoroughly riveting account of Holiday and her milieu." The New York Times raved that it "may be the most thoroughly valuable of the many books on Holiday," and Helen Oakley Dance in JazzTimes said, "We should probably have to wait a long time for another life of Billie Holiday to supersede Donald Clarke's achievement."

Isolde Ahlgrimm, Vienna and the Early Music Revival

Author : Peter Watchorn
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754657873
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Isolde Ahlgrimm, Vienna and the Early Music Revival written by Peter Watchorn and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isolde Ahlgrimm (1914-1995), was an important pioneer in the revival of Baroque and Classical keyboard instruments in her native city, Vienna, and later, throughout Europe and the United States. Ahlgrimm's performances of Baroque music represented a radical departure from the distinctly twentieth-century interpretations by the much more famous Wanda Landowska and her followers. Peter Watchorn provides an engaging study of Ahlgrimm, and argues that her contribution to the harpsichord and fortepiano revival was pivotal, and that her use of period instruments and the inspiration she instilled in younger musicians, including Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt, has been almost entirely overlooked by the wider musical world.