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Topic: Petit prélude 926  (Read 1293 times)

Offline landorrano

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Petit prélude 926
on: December 03, 2009, 07:11:15 PM
Hello.  Along with my daughter, I am working on JS Bach little prelude 926.   Absolutely fascinating, this music.  I would like to better understand what Bach is doing in this piece, which I believe is basically an exercise, as all of the Petit Preludes. 

I imagine that Bach dictated these pieces, his students copied them down.  I don't believe that he said, that sounds good, go work on that.  He invested these pieces with a definite content.  It strikes me that there is a movement or a progression from tonality to tonality, from key to key I think you say in English, that gives a tremendous dynamic to this little piece. But how to understand this progression?
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