Composition

Invention Extension

(2020) 5 min.

piano solo

Premiere

July 26, 2020
Online performance

Performers

Lorenzo Marasso, piano

Notes

In this response to Bach’s D major Invention, the first half of the piece uses all the notes of each of Bach’s measures (including passing tones, etc.), scrambled up in a gradually accelerating flow. The second half is the original invention with decorations from the first half. Throughout, the piece plays with the metric ambiguities in Bach’s original.
“Invention Extension” is gratefully dedicated to Lorenzo Marasso.

Publication