Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue

As part of our 2013 anniversary commemoration, we are very pleased to present a series of three articles by Dr. Rosalyn Tureck on Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, edited by Xoán Elías Castiñeira Varela. We will release these articles in sections over the calendar year.

The Rust Variant, BWV 903a

Editor’s Praeambulum

1. Source, Provenance, Acceptance
   1. Introduction
   2. History of the Reception of the Rust Variant BWV903a
   3. The Rust Variant: Its Appearance and Disappearance
2. Bach’s Early Composing Procedures in Relation to BWV 903a
   1. BWV 535, BWV 572, BWV 875, Mono-figural Preludes, Toccatas
   2. Analogies to the double-noted Values of BWV903a, mm. 21-23: BWV 1050, BWV 1052
   3. Conclusion
3. Comparative Structural Analysis of BWV 903 and BWV 903
   1. Mm. 1 and 2.
   2. Triadic Figuration and Triplet Rhythm

Endnotes

The First Performance Edition, Griepenkerl 1819

Critical Notes on the Text and Interpretation

Publications

During her lifetime, Dr. Tureck published several editions, articles, and a book on the performance practice of J. S. Bach's music. These are listed below:

• An Introduction to the Performance of Bach
• Forthcoming and In Progress
• Journal Articles
• Tureck/Bach Urtext Series: Critical - Facsimile - Performance editions

Dr. Tureck's autobiography, detailing her extraordinary life and career, was published posthumously by Pendragon Press (2019): Rosalyn Tureck: A Life with Bach.

Documentation

As early as 1980, Rosalyn Tureck began to donate her meticulously curated archive of her own writings and research materials to the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. Now housing all non-audio-visual materials once owned by Dr. Tureck, the number of boxes now numbers in the hundreds. Every month, we add a document or two, taken from this archive, to the list below:

• “Bach” (Prepared for Time Magazine)
• A Case for Open-Mindedness
• A lesson on Postillion’s Air and Fugue
• A Tour Cancelled
• A View Beyond Reproduction for Authentic Bach Performance
• And Why Bach?
• Autobiographies by Pianists Ivor Newton and Dennis Matthews
• Bach - Piano, Harpsichord or Clavichord?
• Bach and the Myth of Authenticity
• Bach Expert Approves the Moog
• Bach in the Twentieth Century
• Bach Performance in the Concert Hall
• Bach Today in East Germany
• Fractal Geometry of Music
• Instruments and I
• Interview with Rosalyn Tureck and Alan Ampolsk
• Learning to Understand Bach
• Letter to the New York Times, 1958
• Master Class at UMaryland (1983)
• Modern Instruments
• Musical Authenticity - Is it a legitimate offspring of Janus?
• Musical Interpretation
• NY Herald Interview, 1961
• On The Advisability of Specialization
• Review of Putnam Aldrich, Ornamentation in J. S. Bach’s Organ Works (1950)
• Review of Quantz’s “On Playing the Flute”
• Submission to the American Federation of Music Clubs’ Journal
• Tureck In Her Own Words
• University of California - San Diego - Regents’ Lecture No. 1 (1966)
• University of California - San Diego - Regents’ Lecture No. 2 (1966)
• University of California - San Diego - Regents’ Lecture No. 3 (1966)
• Virtuoso
• Washington University 1963
• World View of Bach