Sunday 18 September 2011
Tune of the Day: Two Menuets by J.S. Bach
from Cello Suite No. 2, arranged for solo flute
The fifth movement of Johann Sebastian Bach's second Suite for unaccompanied cello is made up of two minuets, the first in D minor and the second in the parallel major key of D major. While the first minuet has chords (rendered here as grace notes) in almost every measure, the second one has very few, and is mainly melodic.