[PW] Bach piano transcription

[Nina Gilbert]

With a Bach work and a title, you'll want to get the BWV number -- Bach has several settings of that text.  I'm guessing your patron wants the Neumeister organ chorale, BWV 1117.  That's one of the set that was discovered by Harvard musicologist Christoph Wolff languishing in the Yale University library (that is, the music was languishing, not the musicologist -- Yale didn't know that they had a lost Bach manuscript in their library until the Harvard professor found it there).  But there's another organ chorale on the same tune, BWV 643.

Here are two links to BWV 1117:

You can buy a transcription online here for $4.95:

http://www.freehandmusic.com/ProductDetail.aspx?PRODID=330692



And you can hear a MIDI rendition of it here:

http://www.virtuallybaroque.com/track718.htm

I think that BWV 1117 is for manuals only -- that is, it doesn't require pedals, and thus could be easily played on a piano.  ("Manual" = "manual keyboard" as opposed to "pedal keyboard.")

Hope this helps!

Nina Gilbert
Education and Community Programs Manager, Boston Lyric Opera
Former music professor


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----- Original Message ----
From: Barbara Bussart <barbarbt at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, December 3, 2007 3:17:25 PM
Subject: Re: [PW] Bach piano transcription


Hi, all -

   I have a patron looking for a piano transcription of Bach's "Alle
menschen
   mussen sterben".  I tried getting the only 2-hand arr. that I could
 find
in
   WorldCat by ILL, and it was bounced as no suppliers.  The other arr.
 that
I
   found were either organ or 4-hand piano.  There is a title in
 WorldCat
   called Twenty-four choral preludes, but it does not have a table of
   contents, so I don't know if this piece is included.

   Does anyone have this in a collection for piano that they could
 either
fax
   or snail-mail to me?

   Thanks!

   Barb Bussart
-- 
Barbara J. Bussart
Chief Information and Adult Services Librarian
Woonsocket Harris Public Library
303 Clinton St.
Woonsocket, RI 02895
401-767-4124 (voice)
401-767-4120 (fax)
http://www.woonsocketlibrary.org
barbarbt at gmail.com
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