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Rondo Espressivo from a sonata in B minor
by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Transcribed for AdLib by Larry Soprano
During J.S. Bach's life C.P.E. was the most successful of
his sons. During a visit to this son (while he was the
chief keyboard player for the King of Prussia) J.S. Bach
first got to know the piano... which was something new
in 1748. This piece is most likely for the piano rather
than the harpsichord or clavechord because it has a slightly
larger range than was common for these two older instruments,
and it is sprinkeled with dynamic markings (pp to f) which
are possible on the clavechord, but there are a couple of
notes in the soprano that don't exist on the that keyboard,
and even the early pianos added an octave above and below
the usual range of these two earlier keyboards.
The rondo is in B minor, and is a slow (andante) almost
sad and lonely piece in two voices through out except for
two semitone disonences that push the soprano along. In
rondo format the main (first) theme appears several times
seperated by contrasting material sometimes derived from
the main theme.