Bach Inventions

[RealPianist]

Where can I find Bach Inventions analysis or any information about that? It seems that somebody mention good pages for Bach, but I can't find with the search..

[goose]

There's an interesting radio programme on the BBC about Bach's inventions. It talks especially about how even a two-voice invention actually weaves many different voice together and illustrates the points with a pianist in the studio emphasising certain voices.

See: https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/discoveringmusic/audioarchive.shtml

Then see the A-Z listings and BACH - inventions

Best,
Goose

[steve jones]

There is a great site which analyses all of the Fugues from the WTC. Sorry, dont have a link but you'll find it on Google no problem. Check my past threads and it will be on there, one titled 'Harmonic Progression in Bach Inventions' or something like that.

Its highly applicable to the Inventions anyway, so worth a look.

SJ

[sarahlein]

Here it is

There's this one:

https://www-personal.umich.edu/~siglind/text.htm

and this one:

https://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/wtc.html

 

[josef]

There is a software, it is called J.S. Bach - Die Inventionen, Einführung und Analyse (= The Inventions, Introduction and Analysis), I have only the german version, I don't know if there are versions in other languages. This program explains very detailed how the 15 inventions are composed, how you analyse them, including scores and soundfiles (harpsichord).  For further information write an E-Mail: info@capella.de or J.Keitsch@capella.de

Greetings, Josef

[robertp]

I feel your pain! I'm playing a number of the 3 Part Inventions, and I've been almost everywhere. The results have not been good. Online nothing particularly useful. In print isn't that much better -- there is a doctoral dissertation by one author, and two books by another author which sound promising, but they're almost entirely structural -- i.e. they don't even mention the Picardy third at the end of the C minor 3 part invention.  I've combed the major musicology journals which are machine-searchable, and there are occasional points here and there, but nothing extended. Same for Grove.

So I'm sitting down and doing it myself. That's not much help, but if there's something of ready access Out There, I've not found it.

[RealPianist]

thanks for all your great replies here!
I had have a look at some, but will have a look the other asap.
It's great

josef, is there any explaination everything in detail about the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue? I've post about this before, but I don't get useful reply as far as I can recall it.

[bernhard]

 Have a look here:

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4736.0.html
(invention 4 – comparison with chess game and Escher)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,1911.msg14853.html#msg14853
(Invention no. 8 – relative difficulty of the inventions – progressive order of Bach’s keyboard works – CD  recommendations)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2714.msg23310.html#msg23310
(how to teach invention no. 1)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,3187.msg27993.html#msg27993
(order of difficulty of the inventions)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4736.msg44774.html#msg44774
(how to play inventions – Escher picture – Example: Invention 4 – Analogy with the game of chess)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,5055.msg48120.html#msg48120
(fingering for sinfonia no. 9)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,5143.msg49995.html#msg49995
(Inventions and sinfonias: Bach’s pedagogical order of difficulty)

https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,7857.msg78912.html#msg78912
(ornamentation and inventions – general discussion on ornamentation)

https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,7246.msg72307.html#msg72307
(how to outline invention 14)

https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,8015.msg81149.html#msg81149
(ornamentation of invention no. 1)

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,10304.msg106137.html#msg106137
(Analysis of invention no. 10)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4430.msg41215.html#msg41215
(Patterns in Bach’s music – several links – including the muoriture CD)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4912.msg46590.html#msg46590
(Books on the interpretation of Bach)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[RealPianist]

Hi Bernhard!

thanks for your reply too.

[bernhard]

Hi Bernhard!

thanks for your reply too.

You are welcome.