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Six Little Preludes, Prelude in C Minor, BWV 934: II. Prelude

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Six Small Preludes and A Little Fugue
A staple of piano pedagogy for 250 years, the six preludes and fugue were written during Bach’s Köthen period and found in notebooks of his students: BWV 924, 926, 930, and 934 in Twelve Little Preludes from the notebooks of his son Wilhelm Friedemann, and BWV 961 and 939 in Five Little Preludes from the Johann Peter Kellner and his circle collection. Desiring to improve my own dusty piano skills, I quickly realized many would sit beautifully on the guitar with little adjustment. My piano resurgence lasted 15 minutes.

BWV 924 – Ascending arpeggios with an ornamented bass voice lead to a descending sequence resembling an expansive and heavenly concerto cadenza.
BWV 926 – Enough material to be a sonata, but one minute in length.
BWV 961 – An unusual 12/8 two-voice fugue, emotionally nostalgic with glimmers of hope in its relentless movement forward.
BWV 930 – The two voices imitate and compete. In binary form, performed in D Minor.
BWV 934 – The clear delineation of the two voices demonstrates expanded musical ideas and makes it the most lyrical prelude presented. In binary form, performed in D Minor.
BWV 999-872 – Performed in D Minor, BWV 999’s final cadence ends on the dominant (A Major), feeling unfinished. Looking for “settlement,” I found a similar arpeggio motif in WTC Book 1, Prelude No. 3 in C Sharp Major, BWV 872. Similarly, it ends on the dominant, but has a 26-measure coda, which resolves the prelude back to the home key. I stole the coda from BWV 872, attaching it to BWV 999 for a clearer resolution.
BWV 939 – The shortest of the preludes I present as an encore. A lovely arpeggio, followed by an ornamented sequence, finishes on the same chord the set started with.

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from God's Time - Music of J​.​S. Bach on Guitar, released September 28, 2022
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Aaron Larget-Caplan Boston, Massachusetts

Aaron Larget-Caplan – is an international guitarist, composer, and arranger. He has premiered 110 compositions, and directs the NEW LULLABY PROJECT and ¡CON FUEGO!
His arrangements and recording of the music of JOHN CAGE are the first to be sanctioned by the estate. He is a Stone Records and Tiger Turn recording artist.
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