Levels Pieces Technique Reading Musicianship Glossary
Fugue in C major, BWV 846
Johann Sebastian Bach (1,685–1,750)
Key C major
Style Baroque
Roughly RCM 9 · ABRSM 8 · Trinity 8 · Henle 5–6
Focus fugal counterpoint: voice independence and entries
What its lesson teaches
Study the four-voice Fugue in C major from Book 1 of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846. Its subject enters once in each voice in the opening bars, then returns in overlapping entries later on: mark every entry, and the voice that carries it, before you play. The three-voice Fugue in C minor, BWV 847, is the alternative. At the keyboard: play an entry and sing its answer.
Technique C major scale, hands together, 4 octaves C major arpeggio, hands together, 4 octaves
The other lesson pieces of Level 9
Consolation in E major, S. 172 No. 1 Jazz Blues Shells Sonata in G major, Hob. XVI:27: I. Allegro con brio Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 64 No. 3 Première Arabesque, L. 66 No. 1 Song without Words in A minor “Volkslied”, Op. 53 No. 5 Andantino (Trois nouvelles études), B. 130 No. 1 Étude in C-sharp minor, Op. 2 No. 1 Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10 No. 1: I. Allegro molto e con brio
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