ExclusiveBach: Prelude in A minor, BWV 922 - Bass Passus

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude in A minor, BWV 922 - Bass Passus. . This beautiful piece was played by Gunnar Johansen. It has common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal), and is provided through musopen.org.

The Fantasia in A minor appears to be an extensive exercise in polyptoton: the repetition of a word in a slightly different form each time. The concept comes from rhetoric, which has many terms for different sorts of repetition in a text. Besides polyptoton, for instance, there are ploche, epizeuxis, diaphora, anadiplosis and anaphora. In Bach’s day, there was extensive and detailed theoretical literature about rhetoric. And this skill of knowing which stylistic device to use in a text, along with the associated terminology, was also applied in writing music. Especially by Bach. This Fantasia can be regarded as a demonstration of the art of repetition.

Source: bachvereniging.nl

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