Brandenburg Concerto No. 2- Bach
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- Context
- Written 24th March 1721, published 1850
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 2- Bach
- The Orchestra
- Concertino
- Natural Trumpet in F, Treble Recorder, Oboe, Violin
- Ripieno
- Violin I and II, Viola, Violon, Cello and Harpsichord
- Transposing Instruments
- Trumpet sounds a 4th above what was written
- Limitations
- Natural Trumpet: has no valves so can only play notes in harmonic series, melodies worked around what it could play
- Treble Reccorder: can't play below a middle F, has to split from unison concertino sections. Also quiet, has to play higher in range to be heard over trumpet
- Techniques
- Barriolage in strings
- Double stopping in concertino violin
- Tasto solo in harpsichord, stop filling in chords
- Concertino
- Harmony
- Functional: Uses primary triads, im/perfect cadences eg. perfect cadence at end of ritornello
- Diatonic
- Uses harmonic devices such as suspensions, imitation, canons, circle of fifths
- Melody and Texture
- Melody
- Ritornello theme played in unison by treble recorder, oboe and violin, trumpet plays arpeggiaic variation
- Uses invertible counterpoint, no one instrument has the melody
- Texture
- Begins homophonic
- Generally contrapuntal
- Melody
- The Orchestra
- Written after Bach's trip to Berlin, met Margrave of Brandenburg
- Thought that the six concertos were collected and rewritten, then dedicated to the Margrave in the attempt of receiving a job offer
- Likely that concerto was first performed at court of Cöthen, no record of it being played by the Margrave's orchestra
- Concerto grosso
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