Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007
This guide follows Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 (1723) in six parts: Prélude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Menuet I – Menuet II (minuet and trio) and Gigue.
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Follow all 24 sections as they play
- IPrélude
- II
- III
- IV
- V I – II
- VI
The Prélude is not a dance and has no marking. It is built from broken chords (arpeggios: a chord's notes played one after another), first over a low G that stays put under the changing harmonies, much like the C major Prelude BWV 846 of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Part 1 stops on a long D marked with a pause. Part 2 dwells on D harmony; from the a low D keeps sounding beneath the moving notes and a scale. The arpeggios bring back the opening pattern, now crossing the strings the other way.
- Part 1
- Part 1: second
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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