Keyboard LIterature Exam 1

Bach:Prelude in C Minor (Book 1)

Genre: Prelude and Fugue

Toccata- Touch Piece, sectional

• Toccata section- etude, touch Piece

• Improvisatory section-

• Canon section- Presto

• Recitative (declamatory) section- Adagio

• Allegro Section-

Bach: Fugue in C Minor (Book 1)

Genre: Fugue (Texture)

Texture: monophonic → polyphonic

Counterpoint: 3 voices

• Exposition: 3 entrances, sequence musical pattern repeated at different pitch levels

  • Subject- Texture: Monophonic

  • 2 Counter Subjects- Opposition to subject

  • Subject Fragment- part of subject

  • Bridge- gets us back to final entrance of subject

  • Has to end in tonic

• *4- Episode 1: short, subject fragment, counter subject fragments

• *4- Subject:

• Coda: Pedal Point

Bach: Italian Concerto

Genre: Concerto

Texture: Homophonic

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