Tag: Prelude & Fugue 3 in C#

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  Sharp practice

  January 27, 2014

  Keyboard, Solo

  Bach, Prelude & Fugue 3 in C#, Well-tempered Klavier

  This Prelude and Fugue has, as you can see, a considerable number of sharps; in fact it has seven, moving every note of the scale up a semitone.  In ‘just’ tuning the results of performing in such an exotic key (or, even worse, F#!) would have been, to say the least, rather unpleasant. But for Bach…