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    The Cycle of 24 Preludes and Fugues. Modern Interpretations in the Russian Music GABRIELA VLAHOPOL Musicology Department University of Arts “George Enescu” from Iaşi 7-9 Horia Street‚ Iaşi‚ 700126 ROMANIA gabriela­­_vlahopol@yahoo.com Abstract: Although the pair prelude-fugue is naturally associated with Bach ’s Well-tempered clavier‚ modern treatments applied to fugues and to other forms belonging to the Baroque were relatively common in the 1920s and the 1930s. The waning interest for the imitative

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    Programme Prelude and Fugue in A flat‚ BWV 862 (No.17 from The Well-tempered Clavier‚ Book I) by Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude Fugue Sonata in A major‚ K. 331 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Theme and variations Minuet with trio Rondo Nocturne in B flat minor‚ Op.9 No.1 by Frederic Chopin Waltz in E-flat major‚ Op. 18 by Frederic Chopin Trios Novelettes‚ Nos. 1 and 2 by Francis Poulenc Novelette I in C major Novelette II in B-flat minor Prelude and Fugue in A flat

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    twenty-four preludes. This is why it is fantastic that Bach was rediscovered one hundred years after seemingly disappearing. Unfortunately‚ Bach

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    2012. Print). He bought music techniques such as Counterpoint (playing of two or more melodies at one time) and Fugue(where different instruments repeat the same melody with slight variation) to their greatest heights. He wrote nearly 300 religious and non-religious choral work called Cantatas. The purpose of this project is to analyze the two-movements of Bach‚ Preludes‚ and Fugues to find out if there are any mathematical patterns in these pieces. Who was Johann Sebastian Bach? Did he have

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    11th May‚ 2010 11:15 am Parsons Music‚ Time Square Programme J.S. Bach Prelude and Fugue in D minor BWV 851 [duration] J. Haydn Sonata in E flat major Hob. XVI:49 I: Allegro II: Adagio e cantabile III: Finale: Tempo di Minuet [duration] F. Schubert Impromptu in G flat major Op. 90 No. 3 [duration] F. Poulenc Trois Novelettes No.1 and No.2 I: C major II: B flat minor [duration] [total duration] Prelude and Fugue in D minor BWV 851 (from the Well -tempered Clavier Part I) Johann Sebastian

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    system we use to this day. In his lifetime Bach has composed over 1000 musical works. Prelude & Fugue in C minor is a song in Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier written in 1722. It contains 24 prelude & fugue which shows the Well-Tempered tuning system that Bach help create. The Well-Tempered tuning is not exact‚ which makes it possible to play all 12 major and minor keys- which was never done before. The Prelude in C minor starts with fast 16th notes in perpetual motion. A monophonic link happens in

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    Baroque Period – Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor The Toccata and Fugue in D minor‚ BWV 538‚ is an organ piece by Johann Sebastian Bach. Like the better-known BWV 565‚ BWV 538 also bears the titleToccata and Fugue in D Minor‚ although it is often referred to by the nickname Dorian — a reference to the fact that the piece is written without a key signature — a notation that is uncommon today and leads one to assume the Dorian mode. However‚ the two pieces are quite different musically‚ it is nearly

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    “The Well-Tempered Clavier” and it is a set of 24 preludes and fugues that runs for about 3 hours and 30 minutes if you listen to all of them from start to finish. It starts off rather quietly and peacefully‚ which is great for someone that likes to fall asleep to classical music‚ but the fugues crescendo into faster tempo that makes you want to get up and dance. The preludes are usually retarded to give the player a type of break between the fugues. The music would be considered primitive by today’s

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    The most famous of Bach’s clavier works is the set of preludes and fugues called “The Well- Tempered Clavier.” The Well- Tempered Clavier was a series of compositions for keyboard in which he explored a tuning of the keyboard that was "well-tempered." The Well-Tempered Clavier was split into two parts and each part consists of twenty-four preludes and fugues‚ one prelude and one fugue in each of the twelve major and minor keys. Part 1 was completed in Cothen in 1722‚ part 2 was completed in Leipzig

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    The program started off with Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E major BWV854 book 1 by Ong Junlin‚ the performance didn’t go smoothly however as he was not confident throughout. The prelude was fine overall‚ as listeners preferred a lighter bass as he tends to over shadowing the lyrical melody lines on the upper register of the piano. The fugue was quite a disaster‚ having the first note as the first impression of any piece‚ he committed a major slip and the fugue was very unstable. To add to the unsatisfactory

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