WEEK 1 — Book 1  No. 5   D Major Prelude      BWV850

Perpetual Motion! Flight of the Bumble Bee is perpetual motion. This D major Prelude, is a light lilting loving conversation between the hands –between two –Cinderella and her prince at a ball, or kids playing in a field, hiding behind trees then coming out into the open — a flirtatious free, open, loving, caring, joyous and playful time –flitting from one place to the next –toddlers running around, a couple in love, loving life and running for the joy of it, –two squirrels playing, darting here and there or white cabbage butterflies flitting in the sun. The right hand flows non-stop like a running brook — sunlight glistening on the surface of the water as it moves easily over rocks and fallen trees, fast but unhurried as it makes its way. But then it hits the rocks –these rocks are heavenly. I have to play slowly to savor the sounds of these chords that Bach created LONG before modern jazz.

Check out bar 9 –absolutely beautiful. Play the notes I’ve circled –use two hands — HEAR it, FEEL it, SAVOR it. An F, well really E# (enharmonic F) diminished chord over F#! Delicious! What was Bach thinking, feeling when he wrote that bar? I love it. I sight read this playing left hand notes together, at beats 1&2 and 3&4. Harmony. BACH!