“Five-Part Invention,” Andrea J. Buchanan’s beautifully perceptive novel, begins with a reckoning. The elderly Lise is penning a letter to her estranged daughter Anna. Nearing the end of her life, ...
Pianist Dan Tepfer has improvised pieces for his new album, Inventions / Reinventions, using a framework similar to Bach's Two-Part Inventions. In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set ...
When I was a teenager trying to learn how to play piano, one of the hardest things for me was having to learn two different parts and then put them together. At least, that’s how my teenage brain saw ...
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In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set of Two-Part Inventions to help his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, learn to play the keyboard. Now, 300 years later, jazz pianist and ...