Solfeggietto
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Solfeggietto (H 220, Wq. 117: 2) is a short solo keyboard piece in C minor composed in 1766 by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.Template:Sfn Although the Solfeggietto title is widely used today, according to Script error: No such module "Footnotes"., the work is correctly called Solfeggio, but the author provides no evidence for this. Thomas Owens refers to the work as a toccata.Template:Sfn
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Qualities
The work is unusual for a keyboard piece in that the main theme and some other passages are fully monophonic, i.e. only one note is played at a time. The piece is commonly assigned to piano students and appears in many anthologies; pedagogically it fosters the playing of an even sixteenth note rhythm by alternating hands.
This piece is easily Bach's best-known, to the point that Paul Corneilson's introduction to The Essential C.P.E. Bach is subtitled "Beyond the Solfeggio in C Minor".[1] Owens also describes it as C. P. E. Bach's most famous work.Template:Sfn
Performances
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The piece appears in Breaking Bad, in the third episode of the fifth season, played by Skinny Pete (Charles Baker).[2]
Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin has arranged the piece with additional voices as Solfeggietto a cinque for player piano.[3]
Jazz pianist Bud Powell plays the Solfeggietto in full before improvising on it in his 1957 "Bud on Bach."[4]
Peter Tork plays it on an electric piano in "33&1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee", a television special, starring the Monkees, which aired on NBC on April 14, 1969.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
German power metal band At Vance performed an arrangement for guitar in their 2002 album Only Human, incorrectly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach.[5][6]
Notes
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- ↑ "Contents of The Essential C.P.E. Bach". Via archive.org.
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Sources
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External links
- Solfeggietto: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
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