An In-depth "Over"-view of J.S. Bach's Little Prelude in C minor

Last night I prepared a video supplement for an adult student who brought the gorgeously woven Little Prelude in C minor (BWV 934) to his first lesson. Since I had studied this work at the suggestion of another student from faraway Greece, I had laid a firm foundation in my own layer-by-layer learning process. Such framing remained true to form in this new learning environment, though some of my ideas about phrasing and counterpoint had changed. (The score in its updated form has become so cluttered with groupings, slurs, and slash marks that only in the playing will the revisions be understood)

Basically, I urged the student to focus separately on each voice with deserving importance. In this connection, I led him through sequences, harmonic progressions/modulations, and counter-melodies, never OVER-looking the important dimensions of each line. The OVER-head view, which happened to be my latest studio accouterment, preserved the essence of ways to approach Bach’s masterpiece which the student can re-VIEW at his pleasure.

http://youtu.be/RYGcBeu3hHg

In tempo play through:

http://youtu.be/jMDKiIaen7c

The score to this Prelude can be found at:

https://arioso7.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/an-in-depth-over-view-of-j-s-bach-little-prelude-in-c-minor-bwv-934/