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Offers performers, teachers and students new insights into
ornamentation.The Cello Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach contain
some one hundred trills, many open to diverse execution and more
than half sparking controversy among musicians. Now accomplished
cellist Jerome Carrington brings together and examines historically
informed interpretations of the trills and compares them with
contemporary performance practice. Carrington collects and
annotates every trill in the Cello Suites, examining each ornament
individually to find the most historically accurate solution for
its execution. For determining the form of each trill, he offers a
method that includes analysis of harmonic structure. Because no
autograph copy of the Cello Suites has survived, he undertakes a
detailed study of the manuscript of the Lute Suite in G minor,
which Bach adapted from Cello Suite No. 5, as a reference for
correcting errors and verifying harmonic and rhythmic details.
Bursting with new ideas, Trills in the Bach Cello Suites offers
insight for performers and music theorists alike. It will aid in
the interpretation of these classic works as it renews our
appreciation for Bach's genius.
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