For Elizabeth by Jonathan David Whitcomb Sheet Music for Piano Solo at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Jonathan David Whitcomb

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Jonathan David Whitcomb

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 2

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher Whitcomb Music

Level 3

Product ID 1346003

Genre Baroque Classical

Instruments Piano

Product Description

This piano piece brings to mind the pure counterpoint of the two-part inventions of Johann Sebastian Bach but with a unique harmonic style that differs from the harmony of that Baroque composer yet feels similar. In spite of that difference, it may sound, to the ears of many listeners, like a new discovery: another little keyboard invention by Bach. For those with more refined ear, "For Elizabeth" may seem like a piece of the soul of Bach's keyboard works . . . minus the old wig.

Bach's clear dominant and subdominant harmony is absent, replaced with a four-note chord (or arpeggio) that takes the place of both dominant and subdominant. For many persons, however, it may sound like another Bach two-part invention.

It could be termed an exercize in arpeggios, yet it can be delightful to master: a refreshing change for those who've enjoyed Bach's keyboard inventions or a potential delight for those who have never encountered those pieces by the Baroque master.

This is NOT an arrangement of a piece by Bach but a 21st century composition by Jonathan David Whitcomb.

Two pages.

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