What do you find most compelling about how the music works? Where does Bach surprise the listener? In what other ways does the work conform to expectations of the genre? If the work is texted, how does the music highlight and/or interpret the text?

Analysis of Sebastian Bach’s BWV 1044 Triple Concerto

This section of the paper should be the result of your careful analysis of the work. By analysis here, I don’t mean a Roman numeral chord analysis or detailed analysis of the form, although you might certainly want to talk about harmony and form. Rather, think of this paper as if you were explaining the work to someone else. What do you find most compelling about how the music works? Where does Bach surprise the listener? In what other ways does the work (or one of its movements) conform to expectations of the genre? If the work is texted, how does the music highlight and/or interpret the text? Remember, this is intended to be a program note, written for a musically knowledgeable audience (i.e., don’t spend time explaining the difference between major and minor, or diagramming a da capo aria). So….what should the audience member listen for?

If you’re writing about a multi-movement work, you should at least account for all the movements in the final paper, although you may wish to spend more time on some movements than others. You may only get through a couple of movements in this shorter section.

You may wish to include musical examples in the paper, but please be sure to choose those examples carefully. DO NOT simply append a score of the entire work to the end of your paper. You may also wish to include a translation of the text, if appropriate.