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Three Sonatasand Partitas
for8 String Guitar
opus 108(2018)
composed by J. S. Bachfor 8 string guitar by Peter Kienle
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Sonata 1 ......................regular key ... lower key Adagio ...................................... 4 .............. 110 Fuga ......................................... 6 .............. 112 Siciliano ................................. 12 .............. 118 Presto ...................................... 14 .............. 120Partita 1 Allemande .............................. 18 .............. 124 Double .................................... 20 .............. 126 Courante ................................ 21 .............. 127 Double .................................... 24 .............. 130 Sarabande .............................. 28 .............. 134 Double .................................... 30 .............. 141 Tempo di Bourree ................... 32 .............. 137 Double .................................... 34 .............. 135Sonata 2 Grave ...................................... 38 Fuga ....................................... 40 Andante .................................. 48 Allegro .................................... 49Partita 2 Allemande .............................. 53 .............. 144 Courante ................................ 55 .............. 146 Sarabande .............................. 58 .............. 148 Gigue ...................................... 59 .............. 149 Chaconne ............................... 64 .............. 154Sonata 3 Adagio .................................... 76 Fuga ....................................... 78 Largo ...................................... 88 Allegro Assai ........................... 90Partita 3 Preludio .................................. 94 .............. 165 Loure ...................................... 99 .............. 170 Gavotte e Rondo ....................100 .............. 171 Menuet 1 ...............................104 .............. 175 Menuet 2 ...............................105 .............. 176 Bourree ..................................106 .............. 178 Gigue .....................................107 .............. 179
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And now with 8 strings....
After fiddling with seven string guitars for a decade now, I found that it had not only expanded my horizon as a guitar player, but even more so infused new ideas and inspiration into my composing (not to mention the thourough exploration of rarely used keys). So, a few years ago, I thought maybe upgrading to eight strings might have the same effect. In a way it did - but more so because most of the time my musical brain just had no clue what notes were under my fingers on the 7th and 8th strings. Like a beginner I had to “calculate” rather the “know” what note was on a given position.
On the seven string guitar I had run into the same problem, compounded by the fact that existing gui-tar literature doesn’t offer much for extended range instruments. On the seven string I eventually adapted some Bach piano music to challenge myself to learn what that extra 7th string can do. For the eight string guitar I am working on new adaptations. This version of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas is originally for the violin. It turned out that transposing it down an octave and writing it in bass clef would lead to a good low range workout on the eight string. I admit that some of the lower chord voicings can be a challenge. They are harder to finger because of the longer scale and therefore wider fret spacing.
After I started playing through the whole set of pieces to check for accuracy I thought it might be a good idea to transpose some of them as low as possible. This would put them into new, unfamiliar keys and add even more challenges. For an added side effect the open strings in the lower keys come in handy in some
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Three Sonatas and PartitasFor 8 String Guitar
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Composed by J. S. Bachfor 8 string guitar by Peter Kienle
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These are for a guitar with added “B” and “F#” strings, although, if you tune your extra strings to “A” and “E” it could also work. You can use a pick or your fingers or any hybrid approach you like. Unlike in the transcriptions from Bach’s piano music, I didn’t use any fingerings or TAB. The main purpose for me on this project is to challenge my sight reading. While my brain knows fairly well that the shell voicings (for example) replicate on the lowest strings, it still takes me an extra split second (and sometimes much longer) to intellectually grasp what note or chord I am playing.
Thank you J. S. Bach for such gorgeous music.
(Peter Kienle 2/6/2019)
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Peter Kienle was born 1960 in a small southwest German town. Aft er a non-musical early childhood a friend intro-duced him to the pleasures and challenges of playing a musi-cal instrument around age 14. Unlike most guitarists of his age group he was not drawn to playing rock and pop music in bands but found himself attracted to classical guitar music and especially latin music. Even more fascinating was the dis-covery of composing original music.
Due to the lack of any instruction by a teacher Peter fol-lowed a somewhat winding musical path that exposed him to all sorts of guitar music, from Mahavishnu Orchestra, to Ralph Towner and Egberto Gismonti, to Villa-Lobos. A fi rst wave of compositions for classical guitar came to an end with his Opus 61, Australian Barbecue around 1980.
Aft er a tumultuous decade, mostly due to a major geographical relocation to the U.S., compos-ing for classical guitar resumed albeit at a slower rate. Around 2001 latin music came back into his musical life which led to the composition of a dozen or so brazilian Choros. Th e purchase of a cheap seven string classical guitar added another dimension to his playing and writing.
In addition to playing guitar, bass, Chapman Stick and various other stringed instruments Peter enjoys computer programming, 3D graphics, and tinkering in his basement.
He lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with his wife and two kids.
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Opus 1, Th e Space Music Suite (1974)
Opus 3, Soylent Green (1978)
Opus 4, 2001 - A Space Odyssey (1978)
Opus 6, Two Waltzes (1978)
Opus 7, For Isengard (1978)
Opus 8, Phantasia (1978)
Opus 9, For Maria (1978)
Opus 10, Tough Statements (1978)
Opus 12, Eternal Output (1978)
Opus 13, Subnormal Funeral (1978)
Opus 15, Ten Seconds (1979)
Opus 16, Th e Sorcerer (1979)
Opus 17, Summerdays (1979)
Opus 19, For Ivana (1979)
Opus 20, Cryptozoic (1979)
Opus 21, UFO (1979)
Opus 22, Th e Bardioc Cyclus (1979)
Opus 23, Th e Nazca Lines (1979)
Opus 24, Th e Bubbleland Concert Blues (1979)
Opus 25, Marooned (1979)
Opus 26, Two Studies 1 & 2 (1979)
Opus 27, Two Studies 3 & 4 (1979)
Opus 28, Sequence X (1979)
Opus 29, Marsian Winter Danza (1979)
Opus 30, Th e Wilcox Cyclus (1979)
Opus 31, Stormhole Valley (1979)
Opus 32, Two Studies 5 & 6 (1979)
Opus 33, Th e Birth Of Time (1979)
Opus 34, Another Point Of View (1979)
Opus 35, Solaris (1979)
Opus 36, Moving Planets (1979)
Opus 37, Th e Ship Th at Sailed Th e Timestream (1979)
Opus 38, Trouble With Th e Bubble (1979)
Opus 39, Th e Fabulous Riverboat (1979)
Opus 40, Song For Grandpa (1979)
Opus 41, Time Slip (1979)
Opus 42, Fugue No. 1 D-minor (1979)
Opus 43, Fugue No. 2 A-minor (1979)
Opus 44, Fugue No. 3 E-minor (1979)
Opus 45, Fugue No. 4 G-minor (1980)
Opus 46, Fugue No. 5 E-minor (1980)
Opus 47, Th e Forbidden Planet (1980)
Opus 48, Broken Hearts Unbroken (1980)
Opus 49, Fugue No. 6 (1981)
Opus 50, Waltz Of Jubilee (1981)
Opus 51, Love And Aff ection (1981)
Opus 54, Hommage to H. Villa-Lobos (1981)
Opus 56, Winter Suite (1981)
Opus 58, First Cycle Of Rhythmical And Harmonical Studies (1981-1982)
Opus 59, Random Reapeats (1982)
Opus 60, Fugue No. 8 A-minor (1983)
Opus 61, Australian Barbecue (1983)
Opus 62, Fugue No. 9 A-minor (1991)
Opus 63, Fugue No. 10 E-major (1991)
Opus 64, 2nd Cycle Of Rhythmical And Harmonical Studies (1990-1991)
Opus 65, Sonata 1 (1991)
Opus 66, Sonata 2 (1992)
Opus 67, Sonata 3 (1992)
Opus 69, Four Chord Exercises (1982)
Opus 70, Two Chord Studies (1983)
Opus 86, Spring Waltz (1996)
Opus 87, Little Suite, No. 1 (2005)
Opus 88, Brazilian Suite, No. 1 (2006) for 6 string guitar for 7 string guitar
Opus 89, Brazilian Suite, No. 2 (2007) for 7 string guitar
Opus 90, Trail Mix (2008) for 7 string guitar
Opus 91, Brazilian Suite, No. 3 (2009) for 7 string guitar
Opus 92, Th ree Waltzes (2010) for 7 string guitar
Opus 93, Two Part Inventions for 7 String Guitar (2012) composed by J. S. Bach, arranged by Peter Kienle
Opus 94, Th e Well Tempered Clavier for 7 String Guitar, Vol 1-4 (2013) composed by J. S. Bach, arranged by Peter Kienle
Opus 101, Th e Pulvermann Empires (1977)
Opus 103, FQRD (2016)
Opus 104, Choros (2017)
Opus 108, Th ree Sonatas And Partitas For 8 String Guitar (2018) composed by J. S. Bach, arranged by Peter Kienle
