Que jouer après 3-Part Inventions, BWV.787-801 ?

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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Canzona Quinta

Girolamo Frescobaldi

52/100 +5 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Style baroque and Ornements baroque — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Gentle

Suite in A minor, BWV.818

Johann Sebastian Bach

52/100 +4 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Connaissance des formes and Style baroque — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Gentle

Suite in E flat major, BWV.819

Johann Sebastian Bach

52/100 +4 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Gentle

Canzone dopo l'Elevazione

Girolamo Frescobaldi

51/100 +4 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

French Suite no. 2 in C minor, BWV.813

Johann Sebastian Bach

57/100 +10 pts 10-20 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Connaissance des formes and Style baroque — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Balanced

Prelude and Fugue in D minor, for organ

Johann Pachelbel

60/100 +13 pts 12-24 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Connaissance des formes and Polyphonie à trois voix ou plus — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Balanced

Praeludium et Fuga in C

Johann Pachelbel

60/100 +13 pts 12-24 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Analyse harmonique and Polyphonie à trois voix ou plus — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Balanced

French Suite no. 4 in E flat major, BWV.815

Johann Sebastian Bach

61/100 +13 pts 12-24 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Connaissance des formes and Style baroque — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

French Suite no. 5 in G major, BWV.816

Johann Sebastian Bach

66/100 +19 pts 24-48 weeks

close skills high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Connaissance des formes and Style baroque — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Challenge

No.145 — Chromatic Invention (1)

Béla Bartók

66/100 +19 pts 24-48 weeks

partial transfer high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Passages rapides and Doigté complexe — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Challenge

Fugue no. 14 en Fa Dièse Mineur, BWV.883

Johann Sebastian Bach

67/100 +20 pts 24-48 weeks

partial transfer high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Analyse harmonique and Polyphonie à trois voix ou plus — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Ordre 23 in F

François Couperin

46/100 -1 pts 3-4 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Intermediate (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. The skill that will carry the work: Style baroque and Ornements baroque — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Same level

Sinfonia No.2 in C minor BWV 788

Johann Sebastian Bach

49/100 +2 pts 3-4 weeks

partial transfer low risk fair confidence

Next piece in the same collection, Intermediate (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM): the order its editor chose, a progression already tested. What changes is the skill in play: Polyphonie à trois voix ou plus and Style baroque — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Same level

Prelude and Partita in F major, BWV.833

Johann Sebastian Bach

44/100 -3 pts 3-4 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, right at the edge of Elementary (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM): different ground, same level. What changes is the skill in play: Connaissance des formes and Polyphonie à trois voix ou plus — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Progressions computed from difficulty, skill overlap and style between works. A What do we play next? recommendation should remain a pedagogical starting point, not an automatic prescription.