Levels Pieces Technique Reading Musicianship Glossary
Invention No. 15 in B minor, BWV 786
Johann Sebastian Bach (1,685–1,750)
Key B minor
Style Baroque
Roughly RCM 8 · ABRSM 7 · Trinity 7 · Henle 4–5
Focus two-part counterpoint, hand independence
What its lesson teaches
Study Bach’s Invention in B minor, BWV 786. Play the bass of closing bars 19–22 and suggest figures (6, 6/4, 7…) for a harmonic reduction, using the right hand and final F-sharp–B cadence as guides. No figures are printed, and two voices need not determine every note of a full chord. At the keyboard: realise a short figured bass.
Technique B harmonic minor scale, hands together, 2 octaves B melodic minor scale, hands together, 2 octaves
The other lesson pieces of Level 8
Sinfonia No. 1 in C major, BWV 787 Figurierter Choral (Figured Chorale), Op. 68 No. 42 Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1: II. Rondo: Allegro, in G major Moment musical in F minor, D. 780 No. 3 Elite Syncopations Improvisation, Op. 46 No. 4 Sinfonia No. 11 in G minor, BWV 797 Harlem Rag Little Prelude in F major, BWV 928 The Art of Finger Dexterity, Op. 740 No. 37
Previous piece Figurierter Choral (Figured Chorale), Op. 68 No. 42The repertoire of Level 8
Next piece Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1: II. Rondo: Allegro, in G major
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