Modern Performance

Practice of Music of the Baroque

Tatiana Koike

Editions: What Constitutes a Good Edition?

• BWV source discrepencies

Performer’s Realization of the Work

• Tempo/ Character

• Trill

• Appoggiatura

• Dynamics

• Dotting and Inequality

Tempo/Character

Tempo/Character

Tempo/Character

Tempo/Character

Ornamentation

•Written out in large notes

• Indicated by symbols

•Not notated, but added by performer

Appoggiatura

•Grace note, short, or long appoggiatura?

Appoggiatura

Trill

•Main note or upper auxiliary start?

•Appoggiatura or grace note start?

Dynamics

Gradation vs. Sudden Change

Inequality

When is it permissible?

Blavet, Allemanda

Dotting

Standard, Overdotted, or Underdotted?