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A prelude (German: Präludium or Vorspiel; Latin: praeludium; French: prélude; Italian: preludio) is a short piece of music, the form of which may vary from piece to piece. [1] [2] While, during the Baroque era, for example, it may have served as an introduction to succeeding movements of a work that were usually longer and more complex, it may also have been a stand-alone piece of work ...
In Prelude No. 2, the cycle of keys appears twice; in the first cycle, the number of bars per key ranges from 1 to 8; in the second half, after C every new key signature lasts for only one bar; the cycle concludes with 15 bars of C major. There is no evidence that Beethoven intended to write similar sets in the 12 minor keys.
A prelude and fugue is a musical form generally consisting of two movements in the same key for solo keyboard. In classical music , the combination of prelude and fugue is one with a long history. Many composers have written works of this kind.
BWV 545a – Prelude and Fugue in C major (alternative version of BWV 545) BWV 545b – Prelude, Trio and Fugue in B-flat major (alternative version of BWV 545; the Trio is an arrangement of the finale of BWV 1029; some parts possibly by Johann Tobias Krebs) BWV 546 – Prelude and Fugue in C minor; BWV 547 – Prelude and Fugue in C major ("9/8")
Anna Magdalena Bach copied a short version of this prelude in her 1725 Notebook (No. 29). [54] The accessibility of this prelude, the "easy" key of C major, and its use of arpeggiated chords, have made it one of the most commonly studied pieces for piano students. [55] This prelude also served as the basis for the Ave Maria of Charles Gounod. [56]
When writing about the variant of the Western tradition, it can be phrased as Western classical music (the link is a redirect to the Classical music article) to avoid ambiguity. Folk music is orally transmitted and generally informal and non-commercial. Traditional music and roots music are assumed synonyms.
The prelude is a lively 2-part texture, using a series of broken chords which swap between the hands. It is in a fast 3/8 time signature and is made up largely of semiquavers. Later on in the piece, the semiquaver line splits between the hands before ending with a short Coda in an improvisatory manner. A prelude is a short, introductory piece.
The Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846, is a keyboard composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the first prelude and fugue in the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, a series of 48 preludes and fugues by the composer. An early version of the prelude, BWV 846A, is found in the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.