64 pages.
8.5 x 11 inches
ISBN-13: 978-1717025753
Beautiful organ music of Bach made more accessible by sharing the work among 4 hands in place of 2 hands and 2 feet.
This brings the possibility of performing inspiring music to the newer players and has the ability to encourage them to go on and master the works in the original form themselves.
Knowing them from the inside out like this makes it easier to put them together and perform them in the future with two hands and pedals from the original scores.
These are note for note transcriptions throughout from the original scores, not “arrangements”.
And they may even be assigned to 4 players, each on their own part, and creating a great recital performace for the audience.
“Those connoisseurs of the art of harmonizing and composing settings will likewise not withhold their praise when they observe with appropriate attentiveness the very unusual manner my father uses to set up harmony in these settings, the natural flow of the inner voices as well as the bass, are factors which set these chorales settings apart from any others.”
– C. P. E. Bach