• Bach Cello Suite 1 Prelude Sheet Music

Bach Cello Suites adapted for Viola - Peters Edition.

● Bach - 6 suites for viola (cello) solo - Sheet music download Great thanks to Marina Kuperman for this unique viola transcription and sheet music, you can download. You can download sheet music: - Bach - 6 suites for viola (cello) solo - Marina Kuperman Edition on this page. To preview the first page of viola part, click the small image. Viola part first page preview: Preface 'all history of the Mediaeval German Poetry and music leads to Bach'. Schweitzer Today both amateur musicians and lovers of music are familiar with J.S. Bach's cello solo suites (BWV 1007-1012). However, little is known of how the Suites were created.

Most probably, they were written in 1720/21 during Bach's service as bandmaster in K?then. The present transcription is based on the facsimile edition of the four separate “autographs” made by “Baerenreiter” in the year 1995. 1 As it’s known no autograph manuscript by Bach survives. But there are four trustworthy eighteenthcentury sources. The first one, (Quelle A), Anna Magdalena Bach’s copy, c.

1730, probably made from a lost autograph. The other one (Quelle B), is a copy by Johann Peter Kellner, made c. This is a copy from a different original, but was it the handwriting of J.S. Bach or another copy of any of his student is unknown. The third and fourth manuscripts (Quellen C and D) are the anonymous copies, made in the second half of XVIII century from a common source, probably not the autograph. Three of these manuscripts – Quellen A, B, and C – are stored in Berlin, in Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, the fourth – Quelle D – in?sterreichischer Nationalbibliothek, Wien. These four autographs have some divergences in the text.

At a choice of bowing marks the editor was guided by the common knowledge of baroque polyphonic music stylistic, the historical, cultural and religious background of cello suites, and by his intuition as a performer. The question which instrument is the sixth suite written for is discussed for almost half a century. In this context are meant such instruments as violoncello piccolo, viola pomposa, and viola da spalla. In the above mentioned manuscripts only Anna Magdalena Bach apart from the mentioning five-string instrument (a cinque cordes) gives also its tuning.

Bach Cello Suite 1 Prelude Sheet Music

The instrument that all of suites are written for, in three of four manuscripts - Quellen A, C and D – is named as Violoncello. By Kellner’s copy – Quelle B – in French as Viola de Basso.

The word violoncello is explained by the Vocabulario degli Accademici della Crusca, the first lexical vocabulary of Italian, where violone is defined as “a large low-pitched viola, which is also called basso di viola and violoncello when of smaller size”. Pictures, writings and surviving instruments show that early violoncellos were made in different sizes, ranging from the size of a large viola to the modern full-sized violoncello. Unlike the present day, when small instruments are made only for the use of children, these smaller instruments were played by professionals. Sechs Suiten f?r Violoncello solo BWV 1007-1012.

Die vier Quellen in verkleinerter Faksimile- Wiedergabe. B?renreiter, 1995 2 D. The Violoncello, Viola da Spalla and Viola Pomposa in Theory and Practice.GALPIN SOCIETY JOURNAL - 2007 ISSU 60; page(s) 121-145 Due to its variable size and playing technique large bass instruments were held in at least three distinct ways:.

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