Fugue in E minor, BWV 914

From the Toccata in E minor

Plays on a MIDI keyboard in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet, or on the keys on screen without one.

Versions

Each easier version only leaves notes out and adds none, so every note in it is the piece's own. Print any of them free.

The easy version, the melody and left-hand roots at level 4, engraved on its own page.

To practise it on paper: a practice chart for this piece, a week of steps from each hand alone to full tempo, with their speeds.

Treble clef from G3 to C6, with ledger lines
Bass clef from E2 to G4, with ledger lines
Key signature: 1 sharp (G major or E minor)
Accidentals: sharps outside the key, naturals
Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, triplets, dotted eighth notes
Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 4ths, 7ths, 6ths, 5ths
Chords: triads, inverted triads
Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns, one hand moving while the other holds, hands in different rhythms

The piece in 9 sections, cut where its music breaks, each read at its own level. Tap one to loop it on the stand until it's clean, then the next.

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Score from a copy shared on MuseScore (Public Domain Mark 1.0); the composition is public domain: Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750. Credits

Two sources agree. Two copies made by different people were compared bar by bar; the 44 bars where they differed were settled against the scan. Only those bars were looked up in a printed edition, J. S. Bach, Toccata in E minor, BWV 914, in Johann Sebastian Bach's Werke, Bd. 36: Clavierwerke IV, ed. Ernst Naumann (Bach-Gesellschaft, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1890); the rest hasn't been compared with it yet. How we check Heard a wrong note? Tell us