Keyboard Music

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Summary: The best book a music lover will ever buy
Review: Bach's English Suites, French Suites, Partitas, Goldberg Variations, Inventions & Sinfonias in one well-produced volume. Priceless music for such a low price. It doesn't get much better than this.

Rating:
Summary: A Wealth of Music For A Small Price
Review: Dover publishing has succeeded in printing a very affordable edition of the Bach-Gesellschaft editions of these major Bach works. The only complaint is that the print is rather small, so there's not much room to write in fingering,of which there are none. So this book, by the nature of the music and the lack of fingering, is not for the beginner.

That's the only complaint that prevented a five-star rating. Recommended, despite the print size!

Rating:
Summary: A Wealth of Music For A Small Price
Review: Dover publishing has succeeded in printing a very affordable edition of the Bach-Gesellschaft editions of these major Bach works. The only complaint is that the print is rather small, so there's not much room to write in fingering,of which there are none. So this book, by the nature of the music and the lack of fingering, is not for the beginner.

That's the only complaint that prevented a five-star rating. Recommended, despite the print size!

Rating:
Summary: NOT big print!
Review: Like all the Dover editions I've seen--and I own quite a few--this is great value for the money, but for some reason they've printed this one in a slightly smaller format than, say, the Beethoven Sonatas, the Debussy album or the Chopin albums. WHY? The print is just small enough that an oldtimer like me has to squint and strain to see the notes. So, when I'm learning a piece from this book, I take it to the office and photocopy it, enlarging the pages 15% (which is about as big a size as will fit on a standard sheet of paper)--then it's just about right!

Rating:
Summary: a bargain for the Bach
Review: The Bach-Gesellschaft Edition, the definitive catalogue of the composer's keyboard (not organ) works, is reproduced in its entirety in this inexpensive edition by Dover. This is the best collection you will find of the Bach clavier canon outside of the Neue Bach Ausgabe catalog of his entire musical output. Though I have to admit that the print is rather small and difficult to read in places, I've grown accustomed to reading microscopic Baroque scores and had no unusual difficulty playing from the pages. Dover publishes great books at the lowest prices, from Thrift Editions of poetry, short stories, and novellas, to classical music scores, and this edition is perhaps the best value of the latter. Though not as 'standardized' as Schirmer and Carl Fischer, nor as studious as the Urtext version of Bach offered by that conservatory favorite G. Henle Verlag, Dover's Bach-Gesellschaft delivers enough bang for the buck (Bach) to win over both my wallet and a place in my score library.

P. S. This book is not recommended for beginners.