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Gigue in G major, BWV Anh.81
form: suite movement / sonatina · skill: three-voice texture, the standard dance suite, fuller ornamentation
Gigue in G major, BWV Anh.81
Johann Sebastian Bach · baroque · Three-part sinfonias & suite movements
Gigue in G major, BWV Anh.81 works in three voices or the dance-suite idiom, with the fuller ornamentation the period ornament tables set out. Three independent voices (the Sinfonias) and the movements of the dance suite, where the ornament tables of C.P.E. Bach and Couperin come fully into play.
Why this piece, and where it sits
C.P.E. Bach, Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen (1753) — for fingering, ornamentation, the foundational keyboard method (skill: three-voice texture, the standard dance suite, fuller ornamentation).
Confidence: ⚠ form-heuristic — graded by musical form (no pedal to read); a score-level pass will refine this.
Score (PDF): open / download the score — the site’s own copy, source on IMSLP.
Score
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