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Topic: Bach's ornaments (Read 3311 times)

carlybrock

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Bach's ornaments

on: December 22, 2024, 11:34:17 PM

I'm an early intermediate learner spending a few years on Bach with a terrific teacher who helps me learn the more elaborate of Bach's ornaments as needed. I'm working on the B minor French Suite Allemande. As I begin to listen to slower recordings of it, I think I hear that the pianist sometimes shortens the trill part of the longer ornaments. My teacher says this is not uncommon, and OK. We don't have time to listen together, so I wonder if anyone hears this, or knows anything about it, or has done this in their own playing.

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