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duet arrangement for Bach cello suites

Author: acermak
Date: 2014-11-09 04:29

Does anyone know if anyone arranged a bottom line for the Bach cello suites (originally intended for unaccompanied cello)? I take harmony clarinet classes and would love to do them after we finish the 2 part inventions.

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Re: duet arrangement for Bach cello suites

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2014-11-09 09:15

I guess the question that immediately leaps to my mind is "why?".

The ingenious beauty of those pieces is that Bach managed to get so much into a single instrument part. Granted, there are places where the availability of double stops does allow two more or less separate lines to be played, or at least hinted at, at the same time. There's much more of that in the violin suites, which are also unaccompanied but are more athletic in terms of the multiple stopping they include. But still, why actually compose a new duet part for something Bach so clearly meant to be played by one player?

FWIW, I play most of the music in the cello suites for my own entertainment during practice sessions. They're very satisfying as Bach wrote them, even on clarinet. If you want to create these duet parts as an exercise, have at it, but you and a partner may be the only ones who ever play them.

Karl

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