Bach Brandenburg Concerto

German Composer 

Born: March 21st 1685

Died July 28th 1750

Part of a set of pieces (6 Brandenburg Concertos)

It's a fugue 

It's Baroque 

It's a gigue 

1st big important keybord concerto

• Use of Harpsichord 
• Ornamentation 
  • Trills 
  • Appogiaturas 
  • Acciacaturas 
• Scalic patterns 
• Polyphony 
• Not many dynamics - terraced 
• No valved brass 
• Concerto grosso (concertino and ripieno)

3 soloists playing call and response. 

Repentitive rhythms with accompaniment underneath. 

Polyphony

Fugue 

Starts with subject then goes onto countersubject and answer. 

Fugue 

ABA - Ternery

• A - Bar 1
• B - Bar 79 
• A - Bar 233

2/4 

(anacrususis at start)

Lively 

Allegro 

Simple Time - Triplets make it sund like compound time 

• Dotted rhythms 
• Syncopation 
• Up-beat (anacrusis)
• Triplets (Gigue)

Solo Instruments: (concertino)

• Harpsichord 
• Solo Violin 
• Flute 

Accompanimet instruments: (ripieno)

• Violin 
• Cello
• Viola 
• Double bass

Instead of harpsichord being an accompaniment instrument like in 'music for a while' it's a soloist so it has its own part nut it still does some filling in of the gaps - obbligato.

No dynamic markings 

Figured bass - system of numbers to notate chords

D Major 

Bars 14-18 are in A Major (dominant)

Bar 79 - B Minor (relative minor)

Regular, expected key changes 

A 2 bar melody/rhythm in the tonic key (then moves to dominant).

Fugal 

Conjunct movement 

Imitation 

Sequences 

The 2 bar melody/rhythm repeated in the dominant key.

Suspensions 

Bar 79 tonic pedal in B minor 

Perfect cadences

Anaccusis = Upbeat 

Gigue = lively duple dance 

Obbligato = essential and interesting part of the accompaniment

Pedal = Long held note or repeated bass note