Prelude in A Minor
Contents:
IMSLP does not assume any sort of legal responsibility or liability for the consequences of downloading files that are not in the public domain in your country.
Retrieved from " http: Preludes ; Fugues ; For organ ; Scores featuring the organ ; For 1 player ; For piano 4 hands arr ; Scores featuring the piano ; Scores featuring the piano 4 hands ; For 2 players ; For piano arr. Contents 1 Performances 1.
Javascript is required for this feature. Editor Wilhelm Rust — Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe , Band 15 Leipzig: Orgel-Compositionen, Band I pp.
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543
This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project. Arranger Max Reger At a certain point, it becomes more art than science.
Where the last chord is indisputably the minor tonic, the role of certain others might be argued. I had a little difficulty with the third phrase, measures 8 through 12, until I actually played it and heard something different from my original analysis.
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 (Bach, Johann Sebastian)
You should always trust your ear. The left-hand figure, although written as a succession of intervals, should be analysed based on its cross relations.
Mendelssohn wrote of it, "I love it! This prelude was played at Chopin's funeral [ citation needed ] ; its melancholy melody is primarily given to the left hand. Chopin wrote them between and , partly at Valldemossa , Majorca , where he spent the winter of —39 and where he had fled with George Sand and her children to escape the damp Paris weather. Due to the sequential nature of the subject, the majority of the fugue is composed of sequences or cadences. In 6 8 time, a brisk prelude with continuous quavers.
For the first two intervals, we hear the E jump up to the high G and the B jump down to the A below it. This creates an inner voice with the pattern B-A -B-G and continues in a similar manner throughout the piece.
The piece is broken up into the following phrases using two key motifs first heard in measures motif A and measures motif B:. The piece begins with the minor dominant Emin in measures 1 through 3 and then tonicizes its relative major Gmaj in measures 4 through 7.
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV is a piece of organ music written by Johann Sebastian Bach sometime around his years as court organist to the Duke of. Work Title, Prelude and Fugue in A minor. Alternative. Title. Name Translations, Прелюдия и Фуга ля минор, BWV ; Preludium og fuge i a-moll, BWV ;.
Measures 8 through 10 are in the parallel major Amaj.