Bach, Handel, Scarlatti 1685-1985

by Peter Williams (Editor)

Overview

1985 celebrated the 300th anniversary of the births of Bach, Handel and Scarlatti. This volume covers all three composers and contains essays from an international team of scholars. Some essays make a contribution towards a better understanding of one or other composer, but at least half of them are concerned with ideas connecting two or even all three of them. The essays are concerned with many aspects of the music - technical, chronological, critical, speculative, theoretical and (importantly) practical - and the distinguished contributors have often endeavoured to ask questions rather than jump to conclusions. Every essay makes fresh points and can open up new avenues for players and (in the broadest sense) students, especially in the present climate of wishing to return to 'authentic conditions of performance'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521082136
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/18/2008
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Peter Williams (1937–2016) held the first Chair in Performance Practice in Britain at the University of Edinburgh, where he was first Director of the Russell Collection of Harpsichords and latterly Dean of Music. He was also the first Arts and Sciences Distinguished Chair at Duke University, North Carolina. He authored many books, including The European Organ (1966), Bach: The Goldberg Variations (Cambridge, 2001), Figured Bass Accompaniment (1970), The Organ in Western Culture, 750–1250 (Cambridge, 1993), The Chromatic Fourth during Four Centuries of Music (1998) and The Organ Music of J. S. Bach (Cambridge, 2003).

Table of Contents

1. Handel and Music for the Earl of Carnarvon Graydon Beeks; 2. Aria and Ritornello: New Aspects of the Comparison Handel/Bach Paul Brainard; 3. Handel and Hanover Donald Burrows; 4. Muzio Clementi as an Original Advocate, Collector and Performer, in Particular of J. S. Bach and D. Scarlatti Stephen Daw; 5. Handel's Early London Copyists Winton Dean; 6. The 'Dotted Style' in Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti David Fuller; 7. The Mietkes, the Margrave and Bach Sheridan Germann; 8. Handel's 'Chandos' and Associated Anthems: An Introductory Survey Gerald Hendrie; 9.‘Der Himmel weiss, wo these Sachen hingekommen sind': Reconstructing the Lost Keyboard Notebooks of the Young Bach and Handel Robert Hill; 10. Did J. S. Bach Compose the F minor Prelude and Fugue BWV 534? David Humphreys; 11. In Search of Bach the Organist Peter Le Hurry and John Butt; 12. Keyboard Technique and Articulation: Evidence for the Performance Practices of Bach, Handel and Scarlatti Mark Lindley; 13. Bach and Handel as Teachers of Thorough Bass Alfred Mann; 14. Tempo and Dynamic Indications in the Bach Sources: A Review of the Terminology Robert L. Marshall; 15. Bach, Handel, D. Scarlatti and the Toccata of the Late Baroque Giorgio Pestelli; 16. Does 'Well-Tempered' Mean 'Equal-Tempered'? Rudolf Rasch; 17. The B minor Mass - Perpetual Touchstone for Bach Research Hans-Joachim Schultze; 18. Remarks on the Compositions for Organ of Domenico Scarlatti Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini; 19. Figurae in the Keyboard Works of Scarlatti, Handel and Bach: An Introduction Peter Williams.