Sinfonia No. 11 in G minor, BWV 797

Johann Sebastian Bach (1,685–1,750)

Key: G minor
Style: Baroque
Level: Level 8
Roughly: RCM 8 · ABRSM 7 · Trinity 7 · Henle 4–5
Lesson: 8.8 Shape the bass and inner voices
Musicianship: 8.8 Through V of V
Focus: three-part counterpoint, inner voice control

What its lesson teaches

8.8 Shape the bass and inner voices

Study Bach’s three-voice Sinfonia in G minor, BWV 797. Its middle voice shares the right hand with the top one, or the left hand with the bass: shape the bass line first, then bring out the inner voice where it takes the subject, and listen for two voices exchanging their notes. At the keyboard: read voices written on separate staves.

Ideas: Voice leading
Independent voices
Theory cards: Following a voice exchange
Hypermeter: bars that lean
Technique: G harmonic minor scale, hands together, 2 octaves

Edition and licence

Score: Mutopia Project · public domain

Sinfonia 11

Typeset by Olivier Vermersch.

Public Domain

Source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=200

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 8

Sinfonia No. 1 in C major, BWV 787, Johann Sebastian Bach
Figurierter Choral (Figured Chorale), Op. 68 No. 42, Robert Schumann
Invention No. 15 in B minor, BWV 786, Johann Sebastian Bach
Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1: II. Rondo: Allegro, in G major, Ludwig van Beethoven
Moment musical in F minor, D. 780 No. 3, Franz Schubert
Elite Syncopations, Scott Joplin
Improvisation, Op. 46 No. 4, Edward MacDowell
Harlem Rag, Tom Turpin
Little Prelude in F major, BWV 928, Johann Sebastian Bach
The Art of Finger Dexterity, Op. 740 No. 37, Carl Czerny

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