If you can memorize each voice first, you will play the voices really well when you put hands together. Try to sing along as you play each voice (or each hand). Each hand should be treated as an independent voice. It is very important to practice hands separately. Compare and practice the measures that are different first. Circle the different measures in both phrases. The first phrase is very similar to the second phrase. There are four 8-bar phrases in this dance. Remember that when playing minuets! Can you play them in a very charming manner and with a very steady pulse, without rushing? At that time, the ladies wore a very long, puffy, heavy dress, with which they could not move too quickly. Practice & Performance Tips:The minuet is the most common dance in the Baroque period. The notebook functioned as a kind of musical diary, into which Bach’s wife Anna magdalena copied pieces composed by her husband and others, sometimes without indicating authorship.
The left hand mostly provides simple bass- and leading notes, but in one or two places there is a foretaste of the imitation and finger coordination required for Bach's more advanced pieces.īackgroundScholars seem to be more or less agreed that the Minuet in G from Anna Magdalena Bach's Notebook is more likely to have been penned by Bach’s colleague, the organist and composer Christian Petzold (1677-1723). The right hand is almost written as a five-finger exercise, but it represents an elegance rare among such practice-pieces. The dancing character and the way the composer uses and varies the simple motive of the first two measures throughout the piece is very characteristic of the Baroque era.
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