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The prelude has 61
bars and is in 3 4. It is made up of running semiquavers and quavers.[2] The piece was originally composed as a
moto perpetuo, probably inspired by
Antonio Vivaldi. The
figuration is similar to that of a violin piece, particularly in an earlier revision of the prelude, Preambulum d-Moll, BWV 875a, which does not include the demisemiquavers in bars 22, 24, etc. in the final version. Despite this, the basic structure has remained the same:
binary form, with the main theme restated in the dominant in bar 27.[3]
Fugue
The fugue has 27 bars, is in
common time and is in three voices.[4] The subject's structure is similar to that of the theme of
The Musical Offering, opening in triplet semiquavers moving
diatonically then quavers moving chromatically. They are later accompanied by the ordinary semiquavers of the countersubject, which make the fugue constantly switch between duple and triple rhythms, even more often than the
D major prelude.[3]
References
^"BWV 875".
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