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Performance Practice Review

1992

Well-Tempered Clavier

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Was The "Well-Tempered Clavier" Performable On A Fretted Clavichord?, Richard Loucks Jan 1992

Was The "Well-Tempered Clavier" Performable On A Fretted Clavichord?, Richard Loucks

Performance Practice Review

Analysis of the Wohltemperirtes Clavier shows that some of the fretting schemes for clavichords used in Bach's time permit performance of the work with approximately 179 voice-leading conflicts, of which five are difficult to perform and two impossible.


Was The "Well-Tempered Clavier" Performable On A Fretted Clivichord?, Richard Loucks Jan 1992

Was The "Well-Tempered Clavier" Performable On A Fretted Clivichord?, Richard Loucks

Performance Practice Review

Analysis of the Wohltemperirtes Clavier shows that some of the fretting schemes for clavichords used in Bach's time permit performance of the work with approximately 179 voice-leading conflicts, of which five are difficult to perform and two impossible.