Author(s)

Yao Geng ¹, Shuang Cai ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Sichuan Conservatory of Music, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610021, China

Corresponding Author

ABSTRACT

This paper makes a harmonic analysis of Bach BWV871, hoping that players can understand the function of every part of Bach and the purpose of creation from the Angle of harmony. The analysis of harmony also allows the player to identify the development of phrases, making the performance more coherent. Harmonic analysis can also help players to practice Bach logically and interestingly, so as to improve the efficiency of practice and speed up the progress of memorizing music. In the process of practice, you can learn Bach's harmony and kill multiple birds with one stone. A variety of derivations were used to develop the harmonies in the article, including harmonic rearrangement thinking and traditional counterpoint interval relationships. Although the text mentions the concept of harmonic rearrangement in jazz, Bach's harmonies do not use high stacked chords (complex chords) and consist mainly of triads and major/minor seventh chords. In addition, the melody of each voice part is more classical in composition, essentially the major and minor scales, harmonic minors, etc. There are no jazz or avant-garde music symmetries such as whole or diminished scales, as well as some pentatonic scales, altered scales, etc. In summary, the chord progression is very "modern", but the harmonic progression is very "traditional".

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CITE THIS PAPER

Yao Geng, Shuang Cai, The Exploration of the Performance and Practice from Bach's Harmonies—an Example from Op. Bwv871. Art and Performance Letters (2023) Vol. 4: 74-77. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/artpl.2023.040414.

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