Bach: Sonata in A major, BWV 1015 - III. Andante un poco

YouTube Published on Apr 30, 2012 by ScrollingMusic

"Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Sonata No. 2 for violin and harpsichord in A major, BWV 1015 - III. Andante un poco.

This is the beautiful slow third movement of Bach's Sonata BWV 1015 for violin and harpsichord. The sonata is notable for its intricate canonic counterpoint. This movement, in particular, features a canon at the unison between the violin and harpsichord, offset by a bar, accompanied by a near-perpetually moving bass line. The canon has been visually represented by the scrolling red and green bars (red is the violin part; green is the echo at the unison by the harpsichord). The movement modulates to its dominant minor key before returning to its home tonality of F-sharp minor.

For this video, we synthesized the harpsichord part with our existing guitar and vibraphone sounds; we feature a new sound sampled from a recorder/ocarina for the violin part. The accompanying visualization consists of both a spectrogram and our usual scrolling bar visualization."