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Topic: Bach's ornaments  (Read 3221 times)

Offline 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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Offline brogers70

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Re: Bach's ornaments
Reply #1 on: December 23, 2024, 06:58:09 PM
It's fine to shorten trills, particularly if you do not want to overwhelm something happening in another voice.

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Re: Bach's ornaments
Reply #2 on: December 24, 2024, 01:41:05 AM
This makes so much sense to me, put that way, because I've been feeling some awkward "collisions" between voices.  Thanks
 

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