Steve Goss: Rests, articulation, tempo, and rubato in Bach’s music
Happy to welcome Prof. Steve Goss again! 🧙♂️ In this livestream, we shall look at four aspects of Bach interpretation.
- Firstly, how should we read Bach’s rests?
- Often his notation is very precise, particularly in regards to the lengths of bass notes, do we have to follow his rhythms precisely?
- We shall consider some issues of articulation, looking at a variety of note-lengths and accents (dynamic, tonal, and agogic).
- After that we shall consider issues of tempo and rubato, in relation to musical rhetoric and affect.
Let us know your question before this livestream, so we can include them into our conversation!
8 replies
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Please note that we start 1h later at 12pm PT!
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Hi Martin,
The page states schedule is for Sat Jan 22 at 2 PM EST. I guess it's a mistake? :)
Also will it be possible to add a button to add to Google Calendar, not only Outlook?
Thanks,
Calin
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Here is Steve's presentation as a pdf and the link to the Spotify playlist!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3p7z44f4eXMnWYeVaHoDYP?si=8499297ef6834fd0
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I have just watched this masterclass, fantastic! Beautiful music played too, such a pity I could not watch it alive, I enjoyed and learnt a lot. Thank you so much Mr Goss, and Mr Zimny!!!! I will arch it again after one studying
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Thanks again, Steve and Martin. Yet another wonderful perspective on Bach. Another book on performance practice that may be of interest to people (that i have just picked up) is "The Pathetick Musician - Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence" by Haynes & Burgess (OUP 2016). There are a number of Chapters dedicated to the performance of Bach.