Bach – Overture Suite B Min Bwv 1067 Flute/Piano

Betty Bang Mather and Dean Karns have produced THE definitive edition of this Bach classic. Not just for flutists! This is a treatise on Bachs forms dance models and musical poetry providing broad insights into his other overtures suites and partitas. Bachs 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 Bachs rhythmic ideas and phrasing. The publication includes Bachs 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. Bachs choreographic influence made visible with rhythmic examples of Gavotte Sarabande Bourre Polonaise Menuet and other steps that can be danced to opening phrases. Other gems in this edition include a complete facsimile of Bachs handwritten flute part typical examples of the Baroque passions and affects essential to 18th-century expression and much more!