8.10.08

bach's inventions

A while ago I decided to "re-learn" the piano.

Originally the idea was to practise Hanon (I actually found a copy in some cupboard at home), but after googling discovered that it actually might not be such a good idea since I probably don't know what's right and what's wrong about technique.

Some sites/forum posts suggested Bach's inventions and sinfonias (is that the plural form??) and since I happened to have a photocopy of the Bach-Gesellschaft edition (which is public domain and at imslp.org anyways) of his keyboard music, decided to have a go at it. I originally photocopied it in Sec 3[?] when we were exposed to his French suite #5 (G major) in MEP but more on that some other time. Perhaps.

Anyways, after some time, inventions 1 and 13 are okay and memorised; 14 is on the way (still trying to do the turn-like motif on the last 3 fingers of the left hand argh) and approximately memorised; and going to start on 4 and 8 (rather short pieces) tomorrow [hopefully].

The sinfonias seem totally undo-able at the moment... now I remember why I always avoided Bach and chose Scarlatti sonatas for the piano exams hah...

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