Praeludium & Fuge in C Uploaded by: yolar Composer: Kellner, Johann Christoph Organ: Weigle organ evang. Stadtkirche Nagold Software: Hauptwerk V Views: 467
Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam BuxWV180 Uploaded by: EdoL Composer: Buxtehude, Dieterich Organ: 1761/2005 J. A. Silbermann-Metzler, Arlesheim, Switzerland Software: Hauptwerk IV Views: 193
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Uploaded by: josephhaspel Composer: unknown Organ: 1761/2005 J. A. Silbermann-Metzler, Arlesheim, Switzerland Software: Hauptwerk IV Views: 145
Its opening flourish takes place with an extravagant pedal solo, answered by sweeping descending scales in thirty-second notes in the manuals. The pedal solo provides the motivic material for the subject of a fugue and the three-measure ostinato bass of the closing ciaccona.
Both the similarity of their themes and the presence of a second free section between the fugue and the ciaccona make it clear that the ciaccona has taken the place of what might otherwise have been a second fugue.
Hints of imitation of the bass theme in the upper parts reinforce this idea.