Chorale “Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille” in G minor, BWV 511

Johann Sebastian Bach (1,685–1,750)

Key: G minor
Style: Baroque
Level: Level 5
Roughly: RCM 5 · ABRSM 5 · Trinity 5 · Henle 3
Lesson: 5.4 Read the bass numbers
Musicianship: 5.4 Predominant chords
Focus: chordal voicing, legato

What its lesson teaches

5.4 Read the bass numbers

Study Bach’s chorale setting Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille, BWV 511, in G minor. Its two written lines have no figures: in bars 1–4, count the upper note’s interval above the bass and reduce compound intervals. Compare these with the card’s 5/3, 6/3 and 6/4 models; two notes alone need not determine a complete triad or its inversion. At the keyboard: play triads from figured-bass numbers.

Ideas: Figured-bass numbers
Interval inversion
Compound intervals
Theory cards: Figured-bass numbers
Interval inversion
Compound intervals
Technique: G harmonic minor scale, hands together, 2 octaves

Edition and licence

Score: Mutopia Project · public domain

Chorale setting "Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille" in G minor

Typeset by Steven McDougall.

Public Domain

Source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=1009

Licence: Public Domain (Mutopia Project licensing: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/legal.html)

Adapted by Musalea: converted to MusicXML and prepared for interactive practice.

The other lesson pieces of Level 5

Prelude in A major, Op. 28 No. 7, Frédéric Chopin
Marche funèbre del Signor Maestro Contrapunto in C minor, K. 453a, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dedicatoria, Op. 1 No. 1, Enrique Granados
Bittendes Kind, Op. 15 No. 4, Robert Schumann
Invention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775, Johann Sebastian Bach
Étude in F major, Op. 47 No. 9, Stephen Heller
Arietta, Op. 12 No. 1, Edvard Grieg
Rondo, Ignaz Pleyel

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