Examples of this type of piece by a certain Baroque composer are usually preceded by a prelude or a (*) toccata, including a spooky one in D minor.
This type of piece was the subject of a 1753 treatise on playing techniques by Friedrich Christian Marpurg. Fourteen of these pieces, all but the final of which use the same 13-note D-minor subject, are found in an eighteenth-century work that also includes four canons. The final piece of this type in that work tails off after introducing a four-note theme representing the composer's own name. Examples of this type of piece by a certain Baroque composer are usually preceded by a prelude or a (*) toccata, including a spooky one in D minor. For 10 points, J.S. Bach wrote a composition titled for the "art" of what type of contrapuntal compositions for multiple voices?
This type of piece was the subject of a 1753 treatise on playing techniques by Friedrich Christian Marpurg.
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