Chamber Music Bass Clarinet 2, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Flu...(+)
Chamber Music Bass
Clarinet 2, Bassoon 1,
Bassoon 2, Clarinet 1,
Clarinet 2, Flute 1,
Flute 2, Oboe 1, Oboe 2,
alto Saxophone, soprano
Saxophone
SKU:
PR.114414480
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Transcriptions of J.S.
Bach for Chamber
Winds. Composed by
Johann Sebastian Bach.
Folder. Baroque. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
64+12+12+12+12+12+12+12+1
2+12+12+12+12+12+12
pages. Duration 48
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41448.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114414480).
ISBN
9781598063264. UPC:
680160597932. 9x12
inches. Key: Bb major.
Transcribed by Carter
Pann.
A unique
collection of elegant
transcriptions of
Bach’s keyboard
and instrumental gems
scored for 10 woodwinds,
with flexible scoring and
ossia parts –
ideal for schools and
“pull-outâ€
groups on wind ensemble
concerts.
The music of
Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750) is a gift.
Nearly every piece that
poured out of this man is
as inspired and perfected
as the next. His body of
work has cut a deep
incision in the recorded
history of music and set
a benchmark to which all
the contrapuntal masters
who followed have aspired
to meet.The
transcriptions found
within this volume add to
the thousands upon
thousands of versions of
his music already
re-worked for different
groups and media. The
music here does not,
however, embellish
Bach’s own scores
(save but for a couple of
instances in which it was
felt necessary to add an
inner voice to serve the
expansive range of the
ten woodwinds). The
selections are ordered
(loosely) to assume a
smooth, inclined
trajectory of both
difficulty and musical
breadth. The first piece
is a small and
simpleminuet, the last is
a long interior movement
of one of the most
beloved and advanced
violin concertos in the
whole repertoire.As a
keyboard player I grew up
learning and falling in
love with much of
Bach’s music at
the piano. For this very
reason, much of this
volume consists of the
composer’s
keyboard works. One
cannot, however, deny
many of the most
cherished works from
Bach’s oeuvre when
compiling a set of
transcriptions, and many
of those
“hits†are
included here as
well.Departing from a
traditional harmoniemusik
ensemble, I have replaced
the horns here with
saxophones. There are two
reasons: 1) the nature of
much of this music
requires instruments with
an ease of agility not
executable so readily on
the horn; and 2) the
opportunity for saxophone
players to be included in
such an ensemble was very
attractive,
pedagogically.I hope you
enjoy these gems from
such a great genius.
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