Musical Offerings, Spring 2019

46 Dellaperute ⦁ Emanuel Bach Music never exists in a vacuum. As seen with empfindsamer Stil and Empfindsamkeit , music is almost always a product of its philosophical, historical, and artistic context. In summary, the field of musicology needs more scholars who are able to take composers’ historical contexts into consideration while also studying these composers in their own right. This involves making connections to historical events, philosophies, and arts of the time period while still performing an in- depth, unbiased study of the composer’s works. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, with his empfindsamer Stil , is just one example of a composer who is ahead of his time, and musicologists should do their best to study his music on its own terms. Bibliography Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel. Collected Keyboard Works for Solo Keyboard by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714-1788 . Edited by Darrell Berg. New York: Garland, 1985. _______. Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments . Translated and edited by William J. Mitchell. London, UK: Eulenburg, 1974. _______. Keyboard Sonata in B Minor, H. 36, Wq. 49 No. 6 . Edited by Rudolf Steglich. Nuremberg: Johann Ulrich Haffner, 1744. https://imslp.org/wiki/6_Harpsichord_Sonatas,_Wq.49_(Bach . _______. Keyboard Sonata in G minor , H. 47 , Wq . 65 No . 17 . Edited by Émile Bosquet. Paris: Maurice Senart, 1921. https://imslp.org/wiki/Keyboard_Sonata_in_G_minor,_H.47_ . _______. Keyboard Sonatas, 1744-1747 . Edited by David Schulenberg. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Edition . Rachel W. Wade and E. Eugene Helm, gen. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Barth, George. The Pianist as Orator: Beethoven and the Transformation of Keyboard Style . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992. Beethoven, Ludwig van. Piano Sonata No. 8 , Op. 13 . Edited by Louis Köhler and Adolf Ruthardt. Leipzig: C. F. Peters, 1862. https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No.12,_Op.26_ . _______. Piano Sonata No.14, Op.27 No.2 . Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1862. https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No.14,_Op.27_No.2\_\ .