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it was Christian Petzold (or Pezold) who wrote this and the companion piece, Minuet in G minor, and they were merely collected in [Anna Magdalena Bach]'s yearbook.
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Back in the days before the Internet, radio and sound recordings, the only ways people can access a piece of music is through live performances or from a piece of sheet music that they'd learn to play at home. (...)
The entire piece is an exact 8 ex 4 canon at the octave! In addition there is a cantus firmus embedded in the fabric. Such tenderness - it sounds to me like a lullaby!
This piece is one of the most beautiful pieces of the entire Renaissance. It is also a compositional tour-de-force. The top four voices imitate the lower four voices five notes higher two bars (measures) later.
(...) It is a genre in which one poet presents a dilemma in the form of a question and the two debate the answer, each taking up a different side. Some 200 jeux-partis survive, about half of them with music. (...)
(...) The composition is based on the partimen or in French jeu-parti (plural jeux-partis) of the 12th and 13th century, a genre of Occitan and old French poetry composed between troubadours/trobairitz. (...)