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Yay! Off to Music World:

Okay, so you know how most music has a melody (the part we sing to) and then the accompaniment (the background stuff)? That’s very typical across all genres of music, including classical pieces. With his Inventions, however, Bach wrote pieces where there wasn’t a more important and less important part. Both parts are equally as important and equally as challenging (almost like having to different singing parts at once). The inventions have two parts, sinfonias have three, preludes have four and fugues have five.

There are twelve notes in music that repeat themselves (the musical alphabet is A-G, and then there are notes in between some of those). Bach wrote one Invention for each of those notes.

As a fun fact, Bach wrote the inventions as an exercise for his children. They are so beautiful, however, that people have played them for years.

Hope that didn’t bore you (I had a blast writing it down)!