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Bach, Johann Sebastian : Invention Nr.4 d-moll BWV 775

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Music ID : 22487
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:pieces
Total Playing Time:1 min 00 sec
Copyright:Public Domain

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Author : Takamatsu, Yusuke

Last Updated: September 18, 2020
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

D minor, 3/8 time.

The piece is constructed by constantly repeating the theme presented by the upper voice in the opening two measures throughout the entire piece. In this sixteenth-note theme, the diminished seventh leap placed in the second measure creates a severe character.

The sixteenth-note theme continues uninterrupted, but the points where it breaks form cadences, corresponding to structural divisions of the piece (measures 17, 37, 48, 51). This theme appears in various transformed shapes, such as being repeated as a sequence (in the upper voice from measure 5, in the lower voice from measure 11) or used in inversion (measures 22-25).

Author : Hayashikawa, Takashi

Last Updated: March 15, 2018
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Author : Ooi, Kazurou

Last Updated: March 12, 2018
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Writer: Ooi, Kazurou

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