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Form and Analysis: J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, Aria

The document provides an analysis of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations, Aria in three paragraphs. It describes the piece as being in a continuous, simple binary form. The A section contains three phrases ending in half cadences and perfect authentic cadences. The B section includes two phrases of eight bars each that are symmetric and end with deceptive and perfect authentic cadences.

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Form and Analysis: J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, Aria

The document provides an analysis of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations, Aria in three paragraphs. It describes the piece as being in a continuous, simple binary form. The A section contains three phrases ending in half cadences and perfect authentic cadences. The B section includes two phrases of eight bars each that are symmetric and end with deceptive and perfect authentic cadences.

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Form and Analysis: J.S.

Bach: Goldberg Variations, Aria 10/5/11 9:01 AM

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Form and Analysis


DePauw University School of Music

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005

J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, Aria


This piece is in continuous, simple binary form. The A section has three
phrases. The first eight measures contain two phrases, the first ending
with a half cadence and the second with a perfect authentic cadence.
Together, they seem like a parallel period, though I'm not sure if I can
call it a period within the A section when there is still another phrase.
The next eight bars (mm. 9-16) form a phrase that modulates to the
dominant (D), and ends with a perfect authentic cadence in that key.

The B section is a phrase group which includes two phrases of eight


bars each (it is symmetric). The first phrase ends with a deceptive
cadence which resolves to e minor (the relative minor). The second
phrase could have been four bars long, but Bach extended the cadence
with an extra IV-V-I in the last three measures.

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