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Original

St. Matthew Passion. Johann Sebastian Bach. Choir sheet music. English Horn sheet music. Piano and Keyboard sheet music. Recorder sheet music. Soprano Voice sheet music. Viola da Gamba sheet music.

Translation

St. Matthew Passion. Johann Sebastian Bach. Choir sheet music. English Horn sheet music. Piano and Keyboard sheet music. Recorder sheet music. Soprano Voice sheet music. Viola da Gamba sheet music.

Original

St. Matthew Passion composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. 1685-1750. Edited by Klaus Hofmann. For vocal soli, SATB. SATB choir, soprano voice in ripieno. cantus-firmus-chor fur sopran. , 2 orchestras - I. 2 recorders, 2 flutes, 2 oboes. 2 oboe d'amore, 2 oboe d'caccia. english horn. , viola da gamba, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo. cello, violone. double. Stuttgart Urtext Edition. German title. Matthauspassion 2. Passions, Lent and Passiontide. Choir 2. viola part. Language. German. English. BWV 244. 20 pages. Duration 175 minutes. Published by Carus Verlag. CA.3124417. With Language. German. English. Passions, Lent and Passiontide. practical performing Urtext edition based on the latest state of Bach research edited by Bach expert Klaus Hofmann with a concise Critical Report interpretative tips on articulation by indicating analogous places in the score Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Hofmann, Director of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute Gottingen for many years and a contributing editor to the New Bach Edition, presents a new edition. Hofmann has placed the study of the sources at the service of musical practice and the detailed investigation of Bach's intentions. Bach scholars are well aware that Bach's original score and performance parts, running to almost 500 pages of music, are full of ambiguities and contradictions, particularly regarding articulation, which constantly challenge performers to new interpretations. Hofmann discusses these and other problems in a concise critical report, frequently arriving at new conclusions in the process. Extensive notes about parallel passages offer valuable help for interpretation. Special attention was devoted to the performance material with regard to practical needs. Thus, for example the text incipits are also printed in the instrumental parts. including tacet passages. In short - an Urtext edition for practical performance based on the latest findings in Bach research.

Translation

St. Matthew Passion composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. 1685-1750. Edited by Klaus Hofmann. For vocal alone, SATB. SATB choir, soprano voice in filling. cantus-firmus-chor fur sopran. , 2 orchestras - I. 2 recorders, 2 flutes, 2 oboes. 2 oboe d'amore, 2 oboe d'hunting. english horn. , Viola da gamba, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo. cello, violone. double. Stuttgart Urtext Edition. German title. Matthauspassion 2. Passions, Lent and Passiontide. Choir 2. viola part. Language. German. English. BWV 244. 20 pages. Duration 175 minutes. Published by Carus Verlag. CA.3124417. With Language. German. English. Passions, Lent and Passiontide. practical performing Urtext edition based on the latest state of Bach research edited by Bach expert Klaus Hofmann with a concise Critical Report interpretative tips on articulation by indicating analogous places in the score Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Hofmann, Director of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute Gottingen for many years and a contributing editor to the New Bach Edition, presents a new edition. Hofmann has placed the study of the sources at the service of musical practice and the detailed investigation of Bach's intentions. Bach scholars are well aware that Bach's original score and performance parts, running to almost 500 pages of music, are full of ambiguities and contradictions, particularly regarding articulation, which constantly challenge performers to new interpretations. Hofmann discusses these and other problems in a concise critical report, frequently arriving at new conclusions in the process. Extensive notes about parallel passages offer valuable help for interpretation. Special attention was devoted to the performance material with regard to practical needs. Thus, for example the text incipits are also printed in the instrumental parts. including tacet passages. In short - an Urtext edition for practical performance based on the latest findings in Bach research.