Buxtehude: Organ Works, BuxWV 136–161, App. 5
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- Composer: Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
- Editor: Harald Vogel
- Instrumentation: Organ, Viola da gamba
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- Size: 12.0 x 9.1 inches
- Pages: 192
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
This edition is the result of Harald Vogel's many years of practice as an organist and musicologist. The music text is based on a reevaluation of 17th- and 18th-century manuscripts containing the free organ and keyboard works by Buxtehude. They originated during a transitional phase between the traditional letter tablature and the staff notation still in use today. Since many works have survived only in transcriptions for staff notation, the editor was confronted with a high error rate, which he carefully analyzes in the "Einzelanmerkungen".
During the preparation of the edition, the editor always kept sight of the performance practice, but still, the image of the sources is never distorted (e. g. by superfluous rests, beaming not conforming to the sources and the unhistorical adjustment of time signatures) and stays very close to the compositional notation, the letter tablature. The flexible use of three staves and the differentiated distribution of the voices on the staves allow for an approximation in reading conventions of historical notation with its resulting information about hand division.
In this edition, a musical text is presented that avoids the uniformity of detail not conforming to the sources. However, there are many examples of transcription and cursory errors, which are analyzed in a methodical systematic manner.
Works:
- Prelude in C Major, BuxWV 136
- Prelude in C Major, BuxWV 137
- Prelude in C Major, BuxWV 138
- Prelude in D Major, BuxWV 139
- Prelude in D Minor, BuxWV 140
- Prelude in E Major, BuxWV 141
- Prelude in E Minor, BuxWV 142
- Prelude in E Minor, BuxWV 143
- Prelude in quarti toni, BuxWV 152
- Prelude in F Major, BuxWV 144
- Prelude in F Major, BuxWV 145
- Prelude in F-sharp Minor, BuxWV 146
- Prelude in G Major, BuxWV 147
- Prelude in G Minor, BuxWV 148
- Prelude in G Minor, BuxWV 149
- Prelude in G Minor, BuxWV 150
- Prelude in A Major, BuxWV 151
- Prelude in A Minor, BuxWV 153
- Praeambulum in A Minor, BuxWV 158
- Toccata in D Minor, BuxWV 155
- Toccata in F Major, BuxWV 156
- Toccata in F Major, BuxWV 157
- Ciacona in C Minor, BuxWV 159
- Ciacona in E Minor, BuxWV 160
- Passacaglia in D Minor, BuxWV 161
- Praeludium in B-flat Major (Fragment), BuxWV 154
- Sonata in D Minor, BuxWV Anh.5
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Buxtehude: Organ Works, BuxWV 136–161, App. 5
