An analytical survey of the fifteen two-part inventions by J.S. Bach / Theodore O. Johnson.
| Author/creator | Johnson, Theodore O. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Lanham, MD : University Press of America, ©1982. |
| Description | ix, 98 pages : music ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | The fifteen Two-Part Inventions were composed as pedagogical pieces during the period from 1720 to 1723, while Bach was living in Cöthen, and they remain essential to any complete and proper study of the keyboard. As individual pieces having mostly just two voice-parts, and being arranged (somewhat differently from the order in which they were originally composed) in such a way as to utilize--in ascending order by pitch, starting with C--only certain major and minor keys which employ no more than four sharps and four flats, they provide instruction which, although demanding, requires less performance facility than that required by the pieces of the Well-Tempered Clavier, each volume of which explores multi-voice writing involving both preludes and fugues, also in ascending order by pitch, but with pieces in major and minor keys on each of the twelve tones. Because they represent a unique and magnificent body of literature, encompassing many contrapuntal and other musical devices which exhibit remarkable economy of material within concise forms constantly capable of offering new twists to fascinate the mind and refresh the musical spirit, the Inventions are valuable to students of eighteenth-century counterpoint as well as to pianists of various levels of achievement. This study, therefore, is intended for supplemental use by piano students and counterpoint students to help guide them along the structural paths Bach took when he created the Inventions. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 81043826 |
| ISBN | 0819125822 |
| ISBN | 0819125830 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML410.B13 J58 1982 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |