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Music: "The Explorers" by Eric Bridenbaker from the album "...
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Music: "The Explorers" by Eric Bridenbaker from the album "Scapes Volume One"
Toronto footage by Eric Bridenbaker courtesy Idyll Moments/Fern
© 2008-2012 Scapes™
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J. S. Bach (1685-1750) was a confirmed systematiser. He wrote his two (a...
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J. S. Bach (1685-1750) was a confirmed systematiser. He wrote his two (and three) part Inventions for his young pupils to assist them in their systematic study of contrapuntal keyboard music.
There are fifteen pieces in each set, each in a different key (eight major keys and seven minor keys). They were written for an earlier temperament (or system of tuning of keyboard instruments) where only fifteen keys were usable as pieces in other keys were liable to sound quite out of tune. Earlier temperaments were different from the 'well temperament' which Bach used for his 48 preludes and fugues where all keys could be used, with most being nearly perfectly in tune but a few being ever so slightly out of tune though fully usable. The system of 'well temperament' was different again from our modern system of equal temperament where every key is fully usable but each is very, very slightly out of tune.
Bach wrote in the preface to his Inventions that he wanted them played in a cantabile style. He cannot, however, have meant the later cantabile style of a Chopin Prelude. I believe that in Bach the performer should play in short phrases and should use a substantial amount of articulation and detachment. This is what I have sought to achieve although we don't know for sure that this is correct because Bach left very few indications and the few that he left are not necessarily particularly informative. In addition, to avoid blurring these details I have entirely avoided the use of the sustaining pedal. There was no device to lift all the dampers at once on the clavichord and harpsichord of Bach's day (and owing to the limited sustaining power of those instruments such a device would not have been much use anyway). My playing here may come across to some listeners as rather dry but others will appreciate my endeavour to gain some insight into Bach's sound world.
In Bach's day the Inventions would have been played on the clavichord, which was capable of some tonal nuance. They could also have been played on a harpsichord if the family were comfortably enough off to own one. The piano was only just starting to come in and Bach was not very impressed with the ones he heard as they had a very thin tone, especially in the upper register.
I have inserted additional ornamentation, presumably in accordance with the taste of Bach's day, as notated in an early manuscript copy and published in a current edition.
Bach's inventions are excellent for anyone wishing to study and perform contrapuntal music as well as being beautiful music in their own right.
0:00 - Invention no. 1 in C major
1:05 - Invention no. 2 in C minor
2:48 - Invention no. 3 in D major
4:15 - Invention no. 4 in D minor
5:13 - Invention no. 5 in E flat major
6:57 - Invention no. 6 in E major
9:59 - Invention no. 7 in E minor
11:30 - Invention no. 8 in F major
12:26 - Invention no. 9 in F minor
14:04 - Invention no. 10 in G major
15:11 - Invention no. 11 in G minor
16:35 - Invention no. 12 in A major
18:04 - Invention no. 13 in A minor
19:15 - Invention no. 14 in B flat major
20:36 - Invention no. 15 in B minor
I recorded the Two-Part Inventions in 1991.
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Warm regards,
Daniel Léo Simpson
Composer
San Francisco
Thanks again!
Dave
Very impressed.
Keep doing what you do.
Thanks.
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