Falls House Press Partita In A Minor, BWV 1013 - Bach/Sadilek/Mather - Flute - Book

Partita in A Minor for Solo Flute BWV 1013 with Emphasis on the Allemande (Historical Clues and New Discoveries for Performance)

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Editors: Elizabeth Sadilek, Betty Bang Mather
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Solo Flute

This investigative edition sheds new light on the perplexing features of Bach's great work. For example, the continuous sixteenth notes in the Allemande--where to breathe?--embrace both the typical features of allemandes and some highly irregular ones. The authors propose that the atypical, psalm-like structure, delivered with the speech-like enunciation used by Baroque flutists, allows the kind of breathing appropriate to a recitation. The unusually intense melody turns out to fit the structure and images of two particular psalms. The remaining movements--Corrente, Sarabande, and Bourree anglaise--likewise prove both typical and atypical of their dance types, and make a strong contrast with the Allemande while intimately identifying with it.

The edition includes a manuscript facsimile and modern transcription of the Partita, as well as a complete structural analysis, a structural enunciation, a rhetorical analogy, and a method of emphatic delivery for the Allemande. 25 pages of music. 43 pages of text and musical examples.