Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments
185820New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1949. Hardcover. Good/Good Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine inside front and rear covers ffep and block.Shelfwear to boards and block. Black marker to block. Light age toning but pages are otherwise clear. Black cloth boards red title block with gilt lettering on spine; bw illustrated frontispiece; xiii 449 pp; music. The first complete English translation of C.P.E. Bach's instruction book incorporating all of Bach's alterations additions and footnotes into the main text. The incorporations are identified in the editor's notes. Contents: Part I : 1. Fingering -- 2. Embellishments : General ; The appoggiatura ; The trill ; The turn ; The mordent ; The compound appoggiatura ; The slide ; The snap ; The elaboration of fermate -- 3. Performance -- Part II : 4. Intervals and their signatures -- 5. Thorough bass : The triad I ; The triad II ; The chord of the sixth I ; The chord of the sixth II ; The diminished triad ; The augmented triad ; The six-four chord I ; The six-four chord II ; The four-three chord I ; The four-three chord II ; The six-five chord I ; The six-five chord II ; The chord of the second I ; The chord of the second II ; The five-two chord ; The five-four-two chord ; The three-two chord ; The chord of the seventh I ; The chord of the seventh II ; The seven-six chord ; The seven-four chord ; The chord of the major seventh I ; The chord of the major seventh II ; The chord of the ninth I ; The chord of the ninth II ; The nine-six chord ; The nine-four chord ; The nine-seven chord ; The five-four chord -- 6. Accompaniment : The unison ; One-part accompaniment for the left hand ; The organ point ; Appoggiaturas ; Syncopated notes ; The dotted compound appoggiatura ; The dotted slide ; Performance ; Closing cadences ; The fermata ; Some refinements of accompaniment ; Imitation ; Some precautions of accompaniment ; The need for figured basses ; Passing tones ; Chords that precede their bass notes ; The recitative ; Changing notes ; Bass themes -- 7. Improvisation : The free fantasia. W.W. Norton & Company hardcover books
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