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    Bach's two-part inventions are shorter musical compositions based on counterpoint between two voices. They are simpler forms than Bach's fugues. The inventions feature two melodic lines playing together in contrapuntal harmony, while Bach's fugues have more complex fugue forms. Bach referred to his three-part inventions as sinfonias. An invention typically follows an exposition, development, and recapitulation form and features motives that are repeated, transposed, inverted, or extended between the two voices.

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    Bach's two-part inventions are shorter musical compositions based on counterpoint between two voices. They are simpler forms than Bach's fugues. The inventions feature two melodic lines playing together in contrapuntal harmony, while Bach's fugues have more complex fugue forms. Bach referred to his three-part inventions as sinfonias. An invention typically follows an exposition, development, and recapitulation form and features motives that are repeated, transposed, inverted, or extended between the two voices.

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    Bach's two-part inventions are shorter musical compositions based on counterpoint between two voices. They are simpler forms than Bach's fugues. The inventions feature two melodic lines playing together in contrapuntal harmony, while Bach's fugues have more complex fugue forms. Bach referred to his three-part inventions as sinfonias. An invention typically follows an exposition, development, and recapitulation form and features motives that are repeated, transposed, inverted, or extended between the two voices.

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    Counterpoint II

    BACHs 2-parts invention


    What Is an Invention in Music?

    • An invention is a short musical composition based around two-part


    counterpoint. Its closest musical cousin is the fugue, but from a music theory
    perspective, inventions are simpler forms.

    • Bach's inventions were simpler than the fugues he composed for collections
    like The Well-Tempered Clavier. Most were two-part inventions, where two
    voices play in contrapuntal harmony.

    • Bach also composed three-part inventions, which he referred to as sinfonias.


    Subject
    Restatement Motives
    • Repeated

    • Transposed (repeated
    inversion
    Repetition
    starting from a different
    note),

    • Inverted (what goes up,


    goes down),

    • Expanded rhythmically
    (the note values are
    lengthened) and

    • Extended (from 4 notes


    that move by step to 6 or
    more notes that move by
    step).
    ?
    Canon

    Cm: i iv viio i V i

    i iv viio i vii i VI
    Eb: IV V
    13
    Writing Two-Part Invention
    18th Century Counterpoint
    Invention
    Form
    Exposition

    • Motives + Counter-motives - I - V - V - I - x2 to x4 times, in Tonic

    • Episodes - Sequences, Modulation - Tonic > Dominant/Relative major

    Development

    • Middle Entries, Motives in New Key, then Modulate to other close related keys

    • Episodes - Sequences, More Modulations and then back to the Original key

    Recap

    • Final Statement, Motives in Original key, x1 to x2 times


    Rules

    • predominantly 3rd, 6th

    • dissonant need to be resolved (2nd , 4th, 7th) and treated as non harmonic-tones

    • avoid P5th, P8th, D5th, D8th, repeated notes, too much same notes

    • no double leading note

    • no cross voices

    • within two octaves

    • Good Harmonic Progression and choices of Chord notes

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