Dancing with Bach

This introductory video will serve to outline the project and present key, overriding principles common to the individual videos as part of the whole.

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• Applying Historical Techniques to Bach

• The instruments and their techniques in Bach's time and the ramifications for us as players of both modern and period instruments

• Approaches to working with the manuscript sources, particularly with regard to interpreting slurs and bowings

• Bach's relationship to and knowledge of dance

• General approaches to 18th century performance techniques

  • Phrasing

  • Bowing techniques

  • Intonation

  • ornamentation