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Sister Canons in the Goldberg Variations

Posted on January 9, 2020 by dantepfer

In Bach’s Goldberg Variations, every third variation is a canon at an increasing interval. The first (Variation 3) is at the unison (the canonic voice repeats the leading voice verbatim), the second (Variation 6) is at the second (the response repeats … Continue reading →

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