Have you ever seen the Escher picture below?
You must like Douglas Hofstadter's "Goedel, Escher, Bach".
4. You shouldn't accent anything?? Wouldn't that be awfully boring and difficult to listen to--Or am I misunderstanding..
Be careful to not give priority to some phrase, they should be equal important, but this doesnt mean that they should be played like an harpsichord.
Thank you, Bernhard, xvimbi, Tim, CC, for your replies. [I'm adding Goedel, Escher, Bach to my list of books to read!]I have a few questions regarding the motif in the Dm invention.
1. Is the motif the first two measures [Dm scale-ish] of the right hand, or the first four measure [Dm scale-ish followed by a broken Dm chord and then a broken A dim 7]? This has been confusing me, since I don't see how the broken chords are manipulations of the motif. [Are they?]
2. Does it matter if the motif is repeated, but a bit stretched interval-wise? The interval in the first and second measures (C#-Bb) is a major sixth, but later, in measures seven and eight (Bb-A), it is an augmented seventh. The intervals between the highest and lowest note in the motif keep changing, which confuses me.
3. In the section where the left hand has the long trill, where do all the accidentals come from? My teacher said that it modulated to A major, but then decided it was a mode. It doesn't really fully look like either to me-the only thing I can fathom is that they're there to create tension.