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Bach Suite No. 3: Prelude for Solo Viola

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Uploaded by on Mar 14, 2007

Not as difficult to memorize as the next two movements, but somewhat easier to make little slips.

Analysis of form at
http://h1.ripway.com/AF/ProjectFinalVersionB.ppt


Also, I blog here: http://marsupialmumbles.blogspot.com/

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  • how on earth do you play the bit at 2:30, I can't keep the 3rd and 4th fingers intune at all

  • @JackinBig Check the interval of the third first, and watch that your left thumb isn't too far back, forcing your fourth finger to strain while stretching forward.

  • So very well played. It sounds like you have heard, as others have said, other baroque intstruments like the viol play the piece. Or performance practice like in Bachs time; as we can imagine it. You phrase it so precisely. And let the music do the singing. You pair your technique and sound with and complete understaning of the prelude with great effect.

    I like the up bow in the begining. Start off this music machine with an up bow. I have never played it that way.

  • Thanks a bunch! Oddly enough most of what I did was more to connect the improvisational aspect of a prelude with theoretical analysis (grouping larger sections based on motif or harmonic function) than historical... but I really hope this will be the year I get a chance to actually try a period instrument.

    I've always been a fan of trying out up-bows in all sorts of places, though I suspect this particular one may have been at the suggestion of my prof.

    Cheers!

  • ooooh God, you're wrongly play baroque... nightmare!!!!

  • Hmm, period loyalist, I presume.

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  • it's good but, i think this piece should only be played on cello

  • Wonderful

  • starting at 2:15 you slurring is uneven. It does not sound intentional, and i am sure it isnt.

    Your dynamics are not profound enough.

  • its pretty good. i like it. if anything, the rhythm is a bit too free. bach should be more strict to tempo. there is some freedom but not too much.

  • Wow this is amazing. I play the viola and would love to be able to play like that. It really sounded wonderful.

  • sweet sound quality. I'm working on memorizing this'n.

  • Very very nice, but I think the chords at the last part should be played two strings at a time- that's usu. how it's played.

  • Actually these bows are similar, if not identical, to another edition to the same song that I have. They're a lot easier to do than Bach's original bows but I'm playing this piece as well and I've become accustomed to doing the more complicated ones... the other edition also doesn't have any dynamics, so I don't know.

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