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| Composer : | Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750) | ||||
| Instrumentation : | Cello, Viola | ||||
| Style : | Baroque | ||||
| Arranger : Publisher : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
| Copyright : | Public Domain | ||||
| Added by magataganm, 02 Jun 2023 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard works such as the Goldberg Variations and The Well-Tempered Clavier; organ works such as the Schubler Chorales and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. In music, an invention is a short composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) in two-part counterpoint. (Compositions in the same style as an invention but using three-part counterpoint are known as sinfonias. Some modern publishers call them "three-part inventions" to avoid confusion with symphonies.) Well-known examples are the fifteen inventions that make up the first half of Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias. Inventions are usually not performed in public, but serve as exercises for keyboard students, and as pedagogical exercises for composition students. The two-part Inventions BWV 772 a 786 (originally named praeamblae) are short pieces written for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach in Köthen between 1717 and 1723. According to Bach: "Forthright instruction, wherewith lovers of the clavier, especially those desirous of learning, are shown in a clear way not only 1) to learn to play two voices clearly, but also after further progress 2) to deal correctly and well with three obbligato parts, moreover at the same time to obtain not only good ideas, but also to carry them out well, but most of all to achieve a cantabile style of playing, and thereby to acquire a strong foretaste of composition." The inventions can be classified according to the structure and compositional techniques used: 1. Single subject: Based on a single subject, the structure is similar to a fugue with presentations of the subject connected by episodes (Inventions 1, 3, 4, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15) 2. Double subject: Based on two subjects. Episodes between subjects presentations modulate to several closely related keys in a fugue-like way (Inventions 5, 6, 9, 11, 12) 3. Canonic: Make extensive use of the canon contrapuntal technique (Inventions 2, 8) Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventions_and_Sinfonias ). Although originally created for keyboard (harpsichord), I created this Arrangement of the 15 Inventions (BWV 772-786) for Viola & Cello. Sheet central : | 15 Inventions à deux voix (249 sheet music) | | |||
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