Minuet in G minor, BWV Anh. 115

Learn this piece

Composer

Christian Petzold

Level

Intermediate

Key

G minor

Metre

3/4

Tempo

140 BPM

Length

32 bars, about 1 minute

Hands

both

Trains

The G major minuet’s companion in the minor: the same two-line minuet texture in 3/4, reading B flat and E flat from the key, F sharp as the leading note, and E natural and B natural as the music passes through B flat major and F major before returning home; mordents (bars 13, 22) and short trills (bars 8, 9, 15, 31). Both halves repeated.

How to practise it

• In bars 1-3 the left hand holds one long note per bar and the right hand leads; in bar 4 the left hand runs in eighths. Practise bar 4's left hand alone at 80 BPM.
• Bars 4 and 12 look alike, but in bar 12 the left hand plays B natural, not B♭. Loop bars 9-13 and listen for the change.
• From bar 17 the music passes through F major, with E natural in bars 17 and 19. Read those notes before you play the second half.
• Bar 27's right hand leaps back and forth between two lines, and bar 31 has a short trill before the end. Loop bars 27-31 at 80 BPM.

Where this score came from

Licence: Public domain

https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=76

Credit: Typeset by Allen Garvin for the Mutopia Project (Mutopia-2015/08/21-76) from the Bach-Gesellschaft edition, and placed in the public domain by the typesetter.

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