Prelude Fugue and Allegro BWV 998 (Bach)
Movements
i Prelude ii Fugue iii Allegro
Notes
Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E-flat major, BWV 998, is a musical composition for Lute or Harpsichord. The piece was written around 1735. Arranged for guitar, it is usually played in D major with a Drop D tuning. The Prelude is similar to the Well-Tempered Clavier, in which there are many arpeggios. There is a pause in the motion, when just before the coda, there is a fermata over a third-inversion seventh chord with a rich suspension. There is a rare example of explicit consecutive fifths in the left-hand of bar 46. The Fugue is one of only three that Bach wrote in ternary form, with an exact repetition of its contrapuntally active opening section framing a texturally contrasting central section. The Allegro is a binary form dance with 16th notes.
