HELEN 11/2: Well, here we are in a different sort of project, yet bizarrely related to our ongoing project. Thank you, Steven, for this suggestion. I feel like I’m coloring outside the lines.
Our November 2021 challenge is to play through the Short Tempered Clavier (by, who else, PDQ Bach), one of the more inspired titles of recent memory, and such excellent timing for the mood in 2021! I played through the Prelude yesterday. What a gas — he gives us basic cadence patterns in C major, lowering our expectations for the remainder of the collection! I played a little of the fugue to get my feet wet, and resolve the fact that he doesn’t announce the fugue with a title, so, you just have to know. Today, November 2, I will play the fugue. Some of this book looks perversely difficult, and I anticipate happiness (relief?) with being able to separate the Prelude from the Fugue.