Tag Archives: Goldberg Variations

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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Doing It Bachwards: my unexpected Goldberg Variations

Posted on August 26, 2014 by dantepfer

(Cross-posted from UCLA’s Ethnomusicological Review. Thanks to AJ Kluth for inviting me to write this piece for the journal.) As I look back over the last ten years and the peculiar journey with J.S. Bach that the time represents for me, … Continue reading →

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