Subtle crescendos and diminuendos can be used to bring out the melodic contour.īackgroundThe Inventions were originally written as "Praeambula" and "Fantasiae" in the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Sebastian's eldest son, and later rewritten as musical exercises, designed to help students obtain a singing style of playing, but also to give them "a strong foretaste of composition". A steady tempo and a clear sense of direction towards the first and third beats of each bar will give the piece a strong forward motion.
The concise, upward moving subject sounds happy and confident. Virtually every note of the whole piece is derived from the first twelve notes, by means of transposition, inversion (turning the subject upside down) or augmentation (lengthening the note values). Sign up to listen & download > A study in conversationThe compositional economy of this piece is astounding.
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