Search This Blog

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Bach's 🎻G Major Prelude

That Famous Cello Prelude
Deconstructed
Bach's G Major Prelude
👇 ♪ 📽 ♪ 👇

Bach's G major prelude has captivated cellists and music lovers for years. Cellist Alisa Weilerstein deconstructs it.

Bach's six cello suites are considered a rite of passage for cellists. They're masterpieces of classical music, and the prelude in G major — the first movement of the suites — is perhaps the best example of Bach's power as a composer. In it, he's able to achieve rich and complex harmonic movements with just a four-stringed instrument, while using the very basic tenets of music composition. Those basic tenets are what Alisa Weilerstein, a renowned cellist and McArthur fellow, helps us understand.

A previous version of this video mislabeled a C sharp as a C natural. We also removed a simplified chord visual that mislabeled a C natural as a C sharp.
Alisa's discography: 
Yo-Yo Ma
Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, Prélude
👇 ♪ 📽 ♪ 👇 

No comments: