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Tag Archives: sheet music
Updates on Project Bach-Wrote-What?!
I created the website bachwrotewhat.com two years ago on a whim. My goal was to collect and showcase unaccompanied and modern cello music for the rest of us amateur cellists. As I chronicled compositions in this style that I came across, I also began writing a number of pieces of my own, which I now call “self-accompanied” cello music, inspired by modern and even pop music.
In the two years, I have written eight self-accompanied cello pieces. By now, I have long since given up trying to present the original melodies in what I’ve come to call “recompositions.” True to form, all of the original melodic notes are still there, and in many cases the original harmonies and chord progressions survive as well. But once I’ve sketched out a few bars with some new ideas and motifs, I let the recomposition take on a life of its own. Continue reading
Launching Project Bach Wrote What ?!
As mentioned previously in Playing Bach Cello Suite 1, I picked up cello playing seriously again, after two decades of neglect. For months now, I’ve playing with great enthusiasm the first suite of unaccompanied cello music from Bach. In the process I discovered a general lack of music written for an unaccompanied solo cellist.
There is a lack of knowledge about multi-voice-sounding music written for a single cellist to perform. I am talking about music that delivers a full-range audio experience through the use of arpeggios (broken chords), double-stops, and the like commonly found in Bach’s cello suites. Continue reading
Playing Bach Cello Suite 1
For two decades I’ve kept a year-end routine starting after Thanksgiving, lasting through Christmas, and usually ending shortly after New Year’s Eve. I would take my cello out of the closet, and dust it off. I would practice for a … Continue reading
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Tagged bach, BWV 1007, cello suites, fred sheet music, Johann Sebastian Bach, music score, PDF, sheet music, solo cello, unaccompanied solo cello
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Cello sheet music: Adagio from Bach Organ Toccata
Folks, more free Bach cello music can be found in this new article. This is part of the Clean and Free Sheet Music initiative I’ve undertaken.
I took a detour from my usual Bach cello suite transcriptions this time. A few weeks ago someone on Reddit posted a question asking for identification of music. It was a recording of Mstislav Rostropovich playing the cello for the Emperor of Japan, at the White House in 1994. The first piece at 0:37 caught my attention. I swore that I knew this music well – I could hum along ahead of Rostropovich. But I could not recall what this was. The music stuck in my head for days. The mystery drove me crazy.
I tried all sorts of “find the music” magics online, including by singing, by humming, by audio file, by playing on a on-screen keyboard, by entering notes explicitly, and by typing in the contour (shape). Nothing worked. Clearly this was a famous cello piece, but I just could not find it.
Not until I randomly searched for “Rostropovich” and various terms, that I hit the right combination of words. In hindsight, I could have found it in a few minutes, with just “Rostropovich adagio”. So, it turned out that this piece was actually Bach’s organ toccata, BWV 564. Pablo Casals transcribed it for the cello, and apparently it was one of Rostropovich’s favorite piece. Continue reading
Allemande from Bach Cello Suite 1 (BWV 1007)
This is one of the free and clean Bach cello music I am making available, as I transcribe them. See the parent article for context.
Here is a clean sheet showing only notes. You can print it out and add your own bowing and fingering marks. Click on the image to go to the PDF file. Continue reading
Prelude from Bach Cello Suite 1 (BWV 1007)
This is one of the free and clean Bach cello music I am making available, as I transcribe them. See the parent article for context. This is one of the most well-known piece, and as a result was the first I played. But it is the last one I entered into Sibelius.
Here is a clean sheet showing only notes. You can print it out and add your own bowing and fingering marks. Click on the image to go to the PDF file. Continue reading
Minuet 2 from Bach Cello Suite 1 (BWV 1007)
This is one of the free and clean Bach cello music I am making available, as I transcribe them. See the parent article for context.
Here is a clean sheet showing only notes. You can print it out and add your own bowing and fingering marks. Click on the image to go to the PDF file. Continue reading
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Gigue from Bach Cello Suite 1 (BWV 1007)
This is one of the free and clean Bach cello music I am making available, as I transcribe them. See the parent article for context.
Here is a clean sheet showing only notes. You can print it out and add your own bowing and fingering marks. Click on the image to go to the PDF file. Continue reading
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Tagged bach, BWV 1007, cello suites, Courante, Free Sheet Music, Gigue, Johann Sebastian Bach, music score, PDF, sheet music, solo cello, unaccompanied solo cello
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Courante from Bach Cello Suite 1 (BWV 1007)
This is one of the free and clean Bach cello music I am making available, as I transcribe them. See the parent article for context.
Here is a clean sheet showing only notes. You can print it out and add your own bowing and fingering marks. Click on the image to go to the PDF file. Continue reading
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Tagged bach, BWV 1007, cello suites, Courante, Free Sheet Music, Johann Sebastian Bach, Minuet, music score, PDF, sheet music, solo cello, unaccompanied solo cello
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Sarabande from Bach Cello Suite 1 (BWV 1007)
This is one of the free and clean Bach cello music I am making available, as I transcribe them. See the parent article for context.
It is the shortest piece in the suites. Here is a clean sheet showing only notes. You can print it out and add your own bowing and fingering marks. Click on the image to go to the PDF file. Continue reading
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Tagged bach, BWV 1007, cello suites, Free Sheet Music, Johann Sebastian Bach, Minuet, music score, PDF, Sarabande, sheet music, solo cello, unaccompanied solo cello
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