Invention (music)

See also: Invention

In Classical music, a invention is a small composition - generally intended for the keyboard - using a counterpoint to two voice (sometimes three).

Description

An invention is a running away with two votes - considerably simpler thus than a running away with four votes. The principal difference is that there does not exist " réponse".

Exposure

One of the two votes states the " sujet" , musical reason in the principal tone. The second voice then states the subject in its turn while the first embroiders a counterpoint.

Development

Recapitulation

Example

The most famous example are the 15 inventions BWV 772-786 of the Inventions_et_symphonies of Johann Sebastian Bach.

External bond

The Facsimilé site proposes the remote loading of the inventions with 2 votes of Johann Sebastian Bach with format pdf.

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