BACH'S MISCELLANEOUS KEYBOARD WORKS
Played by EDWARD ISAACS
Two Part Inventions
T ISTENERSare by now familiar with a good many of Bach's larger keyboard pieces— the 48 Preludes and Fugues particularly. He wrote his Inventions as studies to lead pupils up to the ' 48.' Fifteen of them are in two parts, and fifteen in three parts. The title is a happy one, for there is endless invention in these pieces-of both artistic device and emotional variety. Bach wrote them for the clavichord. the quiet instrument whose strings were struck by a piece of metal at the end of a hammer. One could obtain more expressive tone from it than from the harpsichord, with its rather noisy plucking of the string.