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Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier
A prelude and fugue in every major and minor key: Book I complete, then eleven pairs from Book II.
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Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major (WTC II), BWV 870
This guide follows Bach’s Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major (WTC II), BWV 870 (1727) in two parts: Prelude (ternary form) and Fugue (fugue).
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- IPrelude
- IIFugue
A broad, unhurried prelude in four parts that opens over a long held bass note. Long notes, ties and suspensions reward following the inner voices as well as the top line. II begins to develop the opening idea, and with IV a long of the opening ideas starts in F major, a fourth higher than the home . A short comes back over the opening bass note.
- I
- II
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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