Bach in Black: J. S. Bach Prelude BWV 999 - Todd Lane

This is a classic classical-guitar piece. It's a great prelude, because its repeating arpeggio patterns and slow harmonic changes provide a good warm-up, almost like an introductory improvisation or ricercare. It is often paired with the Fugue, BWV 1,000 (the fugue that I play on a Les Paul guitar in my Tribute to Les Paul and J. S. Bach video).

J. S. Bach composed this piece for the lautenwerk, a harpsichord modified to sound like a lute. Guitar transcription in D minor by Jerry Willard; played on a Jose Ramirez classical guitar with an adjustable six-saddle bridge by Dan Penkala.

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[kmarshall008]

What is a "ricercare"?

[toddlute]

@kmarshall008 Hi Ken; edited from Wikipedia: A ricercare (or ricercar, recercar) is a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition. The term means to search out, and many ricercars serve a preludial function to "search out" the key or mode of a following piece. A ricercar may explore the permutations of a given motif; it may also be an etude or study. A second type of ricercar, the imitative, contrapuntal type, developed into the fugue.

[concritique]

Some excellent dynamic variation.