Invention 5, BWV 776 -- Urtext
Invention 5, BWV 776 -- Urtext
Two-Part Invention No. 5 in E flat Major - Inventio 5
Please note that this score contains suggestions for playing the ornaments in accordance with Baroque performance practice :- Mordents (measures 1, 2, etc.) begin on the main note and are played very quickly, with a incisive character
- Trills (measures 3, 5, etc.) are played ON the beat and begin on the upper auxiliary note
- Appoggiaturas (measure 32) are played ON the beat and take up two thirds of the main note's value (a dotted eighth note)
- Descending trill with termination (measure 32) begins with a prefix starting on the note above the principal note, includes several repercussions and ends with a suffix, as shown in our score
Duration : 01:18
Source : Johann Sebastian Bach, Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772-801 (1723)
An earlier version exists in the Clavier-Büchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach [Little Clavier Book for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach] (1720)
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