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Bach could make a fugue out of anything!
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- Bach flexes his contrapuntal muscles in this prelude, creating several quasi-fugal expositions using inversion and even some examples of augmentation and diminution.
- There is in fact not much in the way of completely free counterpoint.
- It is particularly impressive that Bach was able to construct such a tightly constructed prelude based solely off the melodic material contained in the chorale melody that is the subject of this prelude, and to my mind, it shows that – as I say in the subject of this video – Bach could make a fugue out of anything, even if this is not in itself a fugue.