Name: Invention No. 1 in A minor for two voices by Robert W. Padgett Piano Solo Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Padgett Music Llc
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Invention No. 1 in A minor for two voices
by Robert W. Padgett Piano Solo - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Invention No. 1 in A minor for two voices

Artist Robert W. Padgett

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Robert W. Padgett

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 2

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher Padgett Music Llc

Level 3

Product ID 1236343

Genre Baroque Classical Festival Contest Early Music

Instruments Piano

Product Description

This two-part invention was composed by Robert W. Padgett in 1990 as a private exercise in invertible counterpoint. The upper voice announces the motive in the tonic key of A minor that quickly overlaps itself at the octave as a brief stretto. An episode consisting of a modulation sequence arrives at a half cadence in bar 4 in E major. The motive is then inverted in bar 5 by the upper voice followed by a partial restatement of the original motive by the lower voice in bar 6. This interplay between the motives inversion and its original form continues through bar 10 before a new episode modulates sequentially to a cadence in bar 13 with a statement by the lower voice of the original motive in the relative key of C major. An inversion of the original episodic sequence from bar 2 follows with slight alterations that cycle through a series of contrasting keys. A second interplay begins in bar 17 between the motives inversion in the lower voice followed by its partial restatement in the upper voice. The exchange of motive and countermotive by the upper and lower voices is an example of invertible counterpoint. In bar 27, an extended version of the motive begins in F minor before morphing back into A minor with the same modulation formula from bar 2 that redirects to a perfect cadence in the tonic key with a final Picardi third in A major.

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