Levels Pieces Technique Reading Musicianship Glossary
Invention No. 11 in G minor, BWV 782
Johann Sebastian Bach (1,685–1,750)
Key G minor
Style Baroque
Roughly RCM 7 · ABRSM 6 · Trinity 6–7 · Henle 4
Focus two-part counterpoint, hand independence
What its lesson teaches
Study Bach’s Invention No. 11 in G minor, BWV 782. Play its bass line alone in bars 19–23, distinguish structural notes from passing notes, and hear the final dominant–tonic cadence. Compare this moving contrapuntal bass with the stepwise bass on the rule-of-the-octave card: the invention is not a literal demonstration of the rule. At the keyboard: harmonise an ascending bass scale.
Technique G harmonic minor scale, hands together, 2 octaves
The other lesson pieces of Level 7
Invention No. 3 in D major, BWV 774 Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49 No. 2: I. Allegro ma non troppo Invention No. 7 in E minor, BWV 778 Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor), WoO 59 Prelude in E minor, Op. 28 No. 4 Autumn Circle Etude Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1: I. Andante Invention No. 8 in F major, BWV 779 La huérfana, Op. 1 No. 9 Lullaby (Berceuse), Op. 109 No. 7
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