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Chapter 39
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- 1BMVBach Work List; how musicologists catalogued his music
- 2Orgelbuchleincollection of forty-six pieces written mostly between 1708 and 1713; Little Organ Book
- 3chorale preludeornamented setting of a pre-existing chorale tune intended to be played on the organ before the singing of the chorale by the full congregation
- 4pedal pointany such sustained or continually repeated pitch, usually placed in the bass and sounding while the harmonies change around it
- 5Kappellmeisterdirector of music not just of the chapel but of the entire court
- 6Inventionssets of contrapuntal pieces along the lines of simple fugues
- 7The Well-Tempered Claviercollection of preludes and fugues by Bach in two books; each volume contains 24 pairs of preludes and fugues arranged by key in ascending order
- 8equal temperamentdivision of the octave into twelve equal half-steps such as we have on the keyboard today
- 9Picardy thirdshift from minor to major at the end of a piece
- 10subjecttheme introduced at the beginning of the fugue
- 11expositioneach voice presents the subject in turn in an opening section
- 12countersubjectunit of thematically distinctive material sounding against the subject
- 13episodefree section; based on motives derived from the subject
- 14invertible counterpointmotive which had been in the bass is moved to the alto and the alto motive is placed in the bass
- 15fuguea contrapuntal composition for two, three, four, or five voices, which begins with a presentation of a subject counterpoint (episodes) and further appearances of the subject, and ends with a strong affirmation of the tonic key
- 16obbligatocomposer has written a specific part for an instrument and intends it to be played as written
- 17partitasynonym Bach used for suite
- 18Brandenburg Concertosset of six concertos he designed to showcase a variety of orchestral colors; dedicated the concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg
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