Hi!
I'm feeling refreshed. I'm home, I'm rested, and I'm back to my usual routine. I'm also back to longer, more productive practice sessions.
Today, we're starting Variation 6, which is the second Canon, the Canone alla seconda. Fittingly, the title has a double meaning, for not only is it the second canon of the work but it's also a Canon on the second, meaning that the second entrance of the thematic voice is a second (i.e., one whole step) above the first. One imagines, in the vein of mathematical playfulness Bach embodied, that the relationship of this second canon vis a vis the first (Variation 3) must be similar to the relation of the two themes. I'll see if I can tease that out further as we go. And for sure we have echoes of the first, whose photos I forgot to take today but which I'll share with you tomorrow.
Happily, this variation seems to be much easier than the first.
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