Böcker av David Schulenberg

This volume contains C.P.E. Bach's "Achtzehn Probe-Stücke in Sechs Sonaten" and "Sechs neue Clavier-Stücke," Wq 63 (H 70-75, H 292-297), written as a companion to his keyboard treatise "Versuch über das wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen." Also included is a facsimile of Gerstenberg's arrangement of Wq 63/6/iii published in "La Flora" (1787) with texts of the dying Socrates and Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy.

Provides an introduction to and comprehensive discussion of the music for harpsichord and other stringed keyboard instruments by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Intended as a practical guide and an interpretive study, this book consists of three introductory chapters on general matters of historical context, style, and performance practice.