Menuet in G Major, BWV Anhang 114 -- Urtext

Petzold, Christian (1677-1733)

Probably the best-known menuet from Anna Magdadela Bach's Notebook (Easy)! ♥

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Difficulty level : Grade 3/12

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Sheet music details :

MENUET IN G MAJOR, BWV ANHANG 114 -- URTEXT

(Minuet from the *Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach*)
Composer :	Petzold, Christian (1677-1733)	Opus/catalog number :	BWV Anhang 114
Movements :	Menuet	Composition/First publication :	1725
Instrumentation :	Piano	Style :	Baroque (1600-1750)
Key :	G Major	Duration :	01:54
Edition :	Urtext (ed. M.A. Caux)	Difficulty :	Grade 3/12

Sources :

Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach [Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach], 1725.

Program Notes :

This famous Menuet BWV Anhang 114 was originally composed for the keyboard in the key of G Major.

It was traditionnally attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, as it appears in Anna Magdalena Bach's Notebook, a notebook which Bach offered to his wife Anna Magdalena in 1725 and which was to be filled with favorite selections of the members of the Bach family.

However, recent research has concluded that Menuet BWV Anhang 114 was probably composed by Christian Petzold, a German composer and organist contemporary with Bach.

During the Baroque period, musicians customarily played menuets in pairs : a first menuet, followed immediately by a second menuet, and then the first menuet played again without repeats.

This menuet can thus be followed immediately by Menuet in G minor, BWV Anhang 115 (also by Petzold), after which it may be played again without repeats.

This score is an Urtext based on the original manuscripts available.

Please note that the quarter note rests in measures 25-26 are editorial, as they do not appear in the sources.

This score contains suggestions for realizing the ornaments in accordance with Baroque performance practice.

These ornaments are :

Mordents : measures 3, 5, 11 and 13
Appoggiaturas : measure 8
Trills : measure 30

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