"🎹❤What a difference in the View of his music. Numerology and his belief mixed with Genius. What a difference this Video has made for me to begin to try and grasp it. Interesting and addicting Your lecture opened a pin hole of light for me. That i hope will grow brighter and brighter. Thank you for your time Svetlana so valuable." Kevin Quinn❤🎹"
What to do with a person who finds it difficult to play hands together after learning playing separate voices? For some reason, my son struggles to bring both hands together.
Putting hands together is the central challenge in the inventions! The brain needs to be trained in this all-new skill, and allowed to build the neural connections slowly. This means extremely slow, conscious practice- I usually have students work on half a measure at a time at a very slow speed. For some students, even smaller units work best in the beginning. I also believe in rewards - if you practice and improve one measure, you get a cookie or something!
@@SvetlanaBelsky thank you for the response. Looks like it is a common difficulty amongst young pianists. Will continue working on the invention with my son. Very much appreciated your advice and video content. 🙏🙏🙏
Interestingly, the term "inventio" comes from the writings of Cicero, the Roman orator, and refers to the process of elaborating on a statement. This is precisely what Bach does with the subjects in these works. I am unaware of anyone before him writing "inventions"
I also would like a pdf of your wonderful breakdown/analysis of this great invention, if you don't mind...I am coming to this not as a pianist but as a composer, and I've always felt that there was something deeper to this music than just an idea switching hands in multiple keys. I want to know more about the importance of numerology in his works...just loved your analysis here!
If you are not playing, which you aren't, in a cantabile style, then you are not playing in a manner that Bach himself held above every other consideration as the purpose for composing the Inventions, It is clear that you never bothered to read the preface to the Inventions. Here is a further description of how Bach played is own music. This comment comes from a letter written in April 12, 1840 written by a student of Nickolas Forkel (who was himself a student of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach the son and student of JS Bach) named Friedrich Griepenkerl (himself famous for being the first person to publish the complete collected organ works of JS Bach. Quoting from this important letter: "Bach himself, his sons, and Forkel played the masterpieces with such a profound declamation that they sounded like polyphonic songs sung by individual great Artist singers. Thereby, all means of good singing were brought into use. No Cercare, No Portamento was missing, even breathing was in all the right places. Bach's music wants to be sung with the maximum of art". Of course we have Bach suggesting in the preface of the inventions that above all to inculcate a "cantabile" style of playing. Imagine if you can how much more beautiful and touching this performance would have been had you both sung your parts like individual great artist singers, both expressing the affects of the individual voices independent of the other?
@@keithhill9901 I entirely agree that many of the Inventions (and Little Preludes, and Sinfonias, etc.) truly demand a cantabile touch. You might watch some of my videos on these (the Little preludes, especially, but also Inventions 2 and 9, in which I advocate a singing touch as passionately as you do! However, like every other instrument, the harpsichord and the piano allow a great variety of touches, sounds and articulations. The C Major Invention, in my opinion, benefits from a bright crisp sound and a sprightly character!
I’m a beginner pianist of 3 months and I’m going to start learning this now. This analysis is just what I needed. You are very clever❤️
Thank you!
Thank you so much for your kind words. I love Bach and want everyone else to love his just as much!
Glad it was helpful!
What is so amazing about the inventions is that they are monothematic...meaning everything is derived from that one subject!!
Reminds me of the 2-part A minor Invention by J.S. Bach. It is all about those sequences in 2-beat increments.
"🎹❤️⚘️Wonderful!! Such useful information I will be watching all of Dr Belskys videos!! So interesting and informative. Perfect for every pianist."
Nice and exact analysis. Thank you very much.
Love finding new things in these pieces!
brilliant
You are great teacher❤
"🎹❤What a difference in the View of his music. Numerology and his belief mixed with Genius. What a difference this Video has made for me to begin to try and grasp it. Interesting and addicting Your lecture opened a pin hole of light for me. That i hope will grow brighter and brighter. Thank you for your time Svetlana so valuable." Kevin Quinn❤🎹"
What to do with a person who finds it difficult to play hands together after learning playing separate voices? For some reason, my son struggles to bring both hands together.
Putting hands together is the central challenge in the inventions! The brain needs to be trained in this all-new skill, and allowed to build the neural connections slowly. This means extremely slow, conscious practice- I usually have students work on half a measure at a time at a very slow speed. For some students, even smaller units work best in the beginning. I also believe in rewards - if you practice and improve one measure, you get a cookie or something!
@@SvetlanaBelsky thank you for the response. Looks like it is a common difficulty amongst young pianists. Will continue working on the invention with my son.
Very much appreciated your advice and video content. 🙏🙏🙏
Bach è matematica per le nostre orecchie.
Did Bach invent the invention?
Interestingly, the term "inventio" comes from the writings of Cicero, the Roman orator, and refers to the process of elaborating on a statement. This is precisely what Bach does with the subjects in these works. I am unaware of anyone before him writing "inventions"
@@SvetlanaBelsky Thank you, Svetlana! 😁
do you have a pdf or link for the 1st invention laid out in sections like that
mike whelan I do and will be happy to send it to you if you like
great ! thanks so much mickelwhelan@yahoo.ca I love these inventions
I am also interested in the pdf. Thanks. jide4christ@gmail.com
Thank you very much. I’m interested too. angeloscozzarella@gmail.com
I also would like a pdf of your wonderful breakdown/analysis of this great invention, if you don't mind...I am coming to this not as a pianist but as a composer, and I've always felt that there was something deeper to this music than just an idea switching hands in multiple keys. I want to know more about the importance of numerology in his works...just loved your analysis here!
If you are not playing, which you aren't, in a cantabile style, then you are not playing in a manner that Bach himself held above every other consideration as the purpose for composing the Inventions, It is clear that you never bothered to read the preface to the Inventions. Here is a further description of how Bach played is own music. This comment comes from a letter written in April 12, 1840 written by a student of Nickolas Forkel (who was himself a student of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach the son and student of JS Bach) named Friedrich Griepenkerl (himself famous for being the first person to publish the complete collected organ works of JS Bach. Quoting from this important letter: "Bach himself, his sons, and Forkel played the masterpieces with such a profound declamation that they sounded like polyphonic songs sung by individual great Artist singers. Thereby, all means of good singing were brought into use. No Cercare, No Portamento was missing, even breathing was in all the right places. Bach's music wants to be sung with the maximum of art". Of course we have Bach suggesting in the preface of the inventions that above all to inculcate a "cantabile" style of playing. Imagine if you can how much more beautiful and touching this performance would have been had you both sung your parts like individual great artist singers, both expressing the affects of the individual voices independent of the other?
@@keithhill9901 I entirely agree that many of the Inventions (and Little Preludes, and Sinfonias, etc.) truly demand a cantabile touch. You might watch some of my videos on these (the Little preludes, especially, but also Inventions 2 and 9, in which I advocate a singing touch as passionately as you do! However, like every other instrument, the harpsichord and the piano allow a great variety of touches, sounds and articulations. The C Major Invention, in my opinion, benefits from a bright crisp sound and a sprightly character!
What an arrogant rant