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Bach and Seixas: Baroque Music Insights

This document provides information about three Baroque composers: 1. Johann Sebastian Bach, who lived from 1600-1750 and was a respected Lutheran German composer. His Well-Tempered Clavier pieces containing preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys were highly influential. 2. Carlos de Seixas, the most prominent Portuguese keyboard player and composer of his time. He wrote mainly keyboard works like sonatas, though many have been lost. His pieces featured simple harmonies and a focus on thematic content. 3. Information on two of their works is also provided: Bach's Prelude and Fugue No. 5 has a lively character combining runs and broken chords

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Bach and Seixas: Baroque Music Insights

This document provides information about three Baroque composers: 1. Johann Sebastian Bach, who lived from 1600-1750 and was a respected Lutheran German composer. His Well-Tempered Clavier pieces containing preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys were highly influential. 2. Carlos de Seixas, the most prominent Portuguese keyboard player and composer of his time. He wrote mainly keyboard works like sonatas, though many have been lost. His pieces featured simple harmonies and a focus on thematic content. 3. Information on two of their works is also provided: Bach's Prelude and Fugue No. 5 has a lively character combining runs and broken chords

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Seminar in Baroque and Classical

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

The Baroqu eErabegwtin 1600 and ended with the death of Johann Sebastian Bach in 175A.
Bach live far 65 years, arespectable LutheranGefinan composer who madeba*que period flourish and
colarful. hr lds final years, Bach was afflicted with blindness, few days befcre his death he dictated a
setting of the hy6n Vor deinex T'kron tret' ich allhier (Before thy throne I stand) to his Son in lar,v.

Two-purt invention no, l0 in G Major BW 781 is a dance aad such a bouncy andlively. Itis
made up of arpeggios and where the piece is all about accents. Bachkept all other musical components as
pcssible sothat he could instruct on the art of using accerrts.

Bach's Well-Tempered Clsvier piecos which contains cf two collection of two sets of preludes
and fugues in all 24 ma3or and mlnor ke1s. Preludes and Fugues are regarded as the most influential
woiks't,&tch:ultimately revolutionrsed western classical music. Prelucle andfugue no.5 in D Major WK
IIBW 874, The pitch pattern with its note repetition, broken chard and consecutive fifth and fourth
interval clearly indicates a rcther lively *haracter, it uses Alla breve a simple-duple meter with a half-note
pulse, it's a combinatian of run and zigzagging broken chord, reminds one of afanfare.

CARLOS DE SEIXAS
Cxlos de Seixas was the most prominent Portuguese composer atdkefuoardplryer af his
[Link] mainly wrote fcr the keyboard, particularly toacatas (sonatas), most of this piece has been lost.
Seixas style had many distinctive features; his keyboard works generally featured simple harmonies and
thus a greater focus on thematic content of his sonatas. Seixas's sonatas contain few articulation
indications, few slurs appear in some of his keyboard works, and there is only one instance of a non-
legato indication

Sonsta no. 11 in A Major is composed of two movaments, the first trLavemerrtwas [Link]
Allegro and has 1218 meter, while second movement was played in minuetlo a*dhas a 314 [Link] the
first movement it emphases the movement of&e melody, afid uses Alberti Lrass. Seccnd mcvement is
slower, and uses a triple mster.

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