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Two-Part Invention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775

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This guide follows Bach’s Two-Part Invention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775 (1723) in one part.

Recording: András Schiff (piano)

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0:00–0:38

The two- is heard from the very start and is imitated by the other hand almost at once. Section I closes with a , and Section II begins in F major, then moves to A minor, where the tension is held to the end of the section. Somewhere in this stretch the appears upside down (inverted). Section III brings the music home to D minor, and a short Final Section follows.

  1. Section I
  2. Section II

Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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Johann Sebastian BachKeyboardBaroque periodD minor

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