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The DWR Baroque Interlude – J.S Bach Invention No.2 in C Minor
September 11, 2015 in Music | Tags: Bach Invention No.2 in C minor, The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude | by The Arbourist | Comments closed
he Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772–801, also known as the Two- and Three-Part Inventions, are a collection of thirty short keyboard compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): 15 inventions, which are 2-part contrapuntal pieces, and 15 sinfonias, which are 3-part contrapuntal pieces. They were originally written as musical exercises for his students.
Bach titled the collection:
Honest method, by which the amateurs of the keyboard – especially, however, those desirous of learning – are shown a clear way not only (1) to learn to play cleanly in two parts, but also, after further progress, (2) to handle three obligate parts correctly and well; and along with this not only to obtain good inventions (ideas) but to develop the same well; above all, however, to achieve a cantabile style in playing and at the same time acquire a strong foretaste of composition.
We’ve featured Invention No.2 already, but as a keyboard piece. I love this rendition of it. :)
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