The bergerie genre popular in both poetry and music of
the period is exemplified in this work. The pastoral
piece has a musette imitating the drone of a bagpipe as
the second couplet and can be interpreted as a calm
evocation of nature.
At the beginning Couperin has written out the so called
finger-pedalling in the left hand, which produces a
harmony and is a common Baroque practice.
Anna Magdalena Bach has copied this piece into her 1725
music book (Clavierbüchlein) at the very beginn...(+)
The bergerie genre popular in both poetry and music of
the period is exemplified in this work. The pastoral
piece has a musette imitating the drone of a bagpipe as
the second couplet and can be interpreted as a calm
evocation of nature.
At the beginning Couperin has written out the so called
finger-pedalling in the left hand, which produces a
harmony and is a common Baroque practice.
Anna Magdalena Bach has copied this piece into her 1725
music book (Clavierbüchlein) at the very beginning
after two partitas of her husband and the famous pair
of menuets in G major and in G minor from the suite of
G major by Christian Petzold.
Heidtmann, Klaus (1952 - )
SHEET MUSIC