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JS BACH PRELUDE IN D MINOR BWV 926

Key: D minor Tempo: Personal choice Style: Baroque

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Playing Baroque keyboard music on the piano is a wonderfully free and creative process. There are no dynamic indications, no articulation marks, no tempo indications. In other words, we need to make this piece our own by combining what we know about performance practice of the period, and what today’s instrument

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