Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Invention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775
No. 4 of 15 in Bach's Two-Part Inventions
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at dotted quarter = 64: the middle speed of the 15 pieces in 3/8 in the library whose files set one. Its length counts from that.
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.
- As written443 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots289 notes
- Right-hand melody243 notes
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.
What it asks of you
- Treble clef from C4 to B5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from C2 to F4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 1 flat (F major or D minor)
- Accidentals: flats outside the key, naturals, sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, whole notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 7ths, 3rds (skips), 4ths, 6ths, 5ths
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns, hands in different rhythms
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score typeset by Allen Garvin for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750. Credits