Overture-Suite In B Minor

Betty Bang Mather and Dean Karns have produced THE definitive edition of this Bach classic. Not just for flutists! This is a treatise on Bach´s forms, dance models, and musical poetry, providing broad insights into his other overtures, suites, and partitas. Bach´s monument of the flute repertoire is newly revealed in this unique combination of critical edition and performance edition, with informed insights into the dances that inspired Bach´s rhythmic ideas and phrasing. The publication includes Bach´s authentic flute part, and an elegant keyboard accompaniment. It also features a thorough analysis of the poetic, rhetorical, concerto, fugue, and harmonic structures, labeled according to late Baroque practices. Bach´s choreographic influence made visible with rhythmic examples of Gavotte, Sarabande, Bourr??e, Polonaise, Menuet, and other steps that can be danced to opening phrases. Other gems in this edition include a complete facsimile of Bach´s handwritten flute part, typical examples of the Baroque passions and affects essential to 18th-century expression, and much more!