The Bach French Suites, groupings of short pieces originally most likely written for the harpsichord, now played on the piano, provide many of the benefits of studying more complicated music by Bach.
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A Frog Hop to the Bach Fugue in C
What makes the contrapuntal music of Bach difficult for adult piano students?
What Happened When I Read Reinventing Bach
For a train journey down south, Paul Elie took along a triple-CD set of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.
Pulling Bach’s Music into 21st Century
I think the best definition of polyphony that I ever heard was from Arthur Jacobs, who defined it as “the simultaneous combination of two or more melodies to make musical sense.”