Bach-Wegrzyk, Sonata n°1 – BWV 1001

J.S.Bach, Sonata n°1 – BWV 1001

BACH COLLECTION by Marek Wegrzyk

This transcription of Sonata BWV 1001 was made for six-string guitar using scordatura, the name for an alternate tuning on stringed instruments. Already used during the Renaissance, this technique was particularly developed during the Baroque period by Heinrich Biber in his Rosary Sonatas for violin, where no less than 14 different scordature were used.

Scordatura increases the sonorous range of the instrument and facilitates the performance of certain chords and fingerings impossible to achieve with normal tuning.

The advantage is that it makes our perception of the musical discourse extremely clear. Bach himself applied scordatura in his Suite n°5 for cello, allowing a large number of four-note chords that are otherwise impossible to play, and creating a particular resonance indicative of the composer’s desire to fully exploit the instrument’s harmonic potential.

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• Product: Digital PDF or Print on Demand
• Pages: 44
• Level: Advanced 
  
• Order number: BE-250309
  
• ISMN 979-0-706843-55-1
  

Listen to Ricardo Lopes Garcia playing BWV 1001: