1. The Keyboard Suites of Handel and Bach
... use Baroque dances as movements, and begin with a prelude. Furthermore, both suites use the common progression of dance movements - allemande, courante, saraband, gigue - as the basis for order. Handel simply omits the sarabande and adds the prelude, and Bach puts a prelude on the beginning and two menuetts prior to the last movement. Naturally, having two pieces from composers with such different lives in terms ... a violin as his influence is much more plausible. Again, at m. 20, the soprano voice engages in increasing downward leaps from the stationary top F. This may as well been tak...
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