The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music

Course: J.S. Bach’s solo and chamber instrumental music.

Second semester, 2019-2020

Seminar, 2 hours weekly course

The course will be held in English.

Lecturer: Prof. Alexander Gorin
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Email: goral@post.tau.ac.il

Reception time: by appointment.

Course requirements:                                                                                                                Regular attendance, active participation, oral presentation, seminar paper (detailed information regarding specific works, procedure, requirements, assignments and reading will be given on the very first lesson and will be available on the site of the course from the very beginning of the course).

Description of course
Solo and chamber instrumental music constitutes a big part of J.S. Bach’s compositional output consisting of the music written for organ and other keyboard instruments, violin, cello, gamba and flute.                                                                            This vast and remarkably rich array of works was created by J.S. Bach in different periods of his life and career, in different social contexts and composed in different forms, genres and styles. The course will deal with a survey of J.S. Bach’s instrumental music.                                                                                             

Course topics                                                                                                                                     The main subjects are – individual works and collections of J.S. Bach’s instrumental music, musical forms, genres and styles in J.S. Bach’s instrumental music.                                                                                               

Grading Summary

Seminar paper 80%                                                                                                               Oral presentation 20%

Expected learning outcomes:

Students are supposed to get acquainted with J.S. Bach’s instrumental music, to demonstrate independent thinking, familiarity with works, understanding of the development, genres and styles. Students are supposed also to improve ability to express themselves both orally and in writing within the subject.

Bibliography

(the list is partial, supplementary readings will be provided during the course)

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Location

Bach's cello suites : analyses and explorations

Winold, Allen

Bloomington : Indiana University Press

2007

Full text available a at: EBSCOhost Academic Collection - World Wide

The accompaniment in "unaccompanied" Bach: interpreting the Sonatas and Partitas for violin

Ritchie, Stanley

Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press

2016

• Full text available at: EBSCOhost Academic Collection - World Wide

The keyboard music of J.S. Bach

Schulenberg, David

2^nd edition

New York : Routledge 

2006

 MUS MT145 BAC       (SCHU)

The organ music of J.S. Bach

Williams, Peter F.

2^nd edition

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

2002

MUS MT 145 BAC (WIL)

Unaccompanied Bach : performing the solo works

Ledbetter, David

New Haven : Yale University Press

2009

MT145 BAC (LED)