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It's 48 because Bach did it all again in book II of the Well-Tempered Clavier. And really, it's 96 because there is both a prelude and a fugue for each key. A
by jancsika 8y ago
It's 48 because Bach did it all again in book II of the Well-Tempered Clavier.
And really, it's 96 because there is both a prelude and a fugue for each key.
And if you think about it, it's 48 + (48 * x) where x is the average number of voices in the fugue.
And then at least a few of those are double and triple fugues, so I guess a forEach statement in there to multiple by 2 or 3 for those cases.
So if you were an organist who was opposed to this tuning method, you'd have a pretty difficult time making a persuasive counterargument against all that.
- stevehiehn 8y agoHmm, I think there is only 24maj/min keys in traditional western harmony. If you write 100 different pieces using 2 keys: C or G, you've still only used 2 keys. But I don't want to argue about set theory :)
- stevehiehn 8y agoMaybe your point is it 'switches' keys (48*x)
- jancsika 8y agoAh yeah, I wrote that incorrectly. I meant that Bach went back and did "it" again for a grand total of 48 prelude/fugue pairs.