Prelude in D Minor


The Full Score

The detailed study you have now made of this prelude has given you a firm understanding of its musical content and expression. With this foundation, you’ll be able to learn the full score with ease and insight. Perhaps a few measures will still pose problems of coordination between the hands, but these can be solved quickly with the Pause and Plan and looping methods we used in our study of the sixteenth-note layer. Below the full score, you’ll find a few final suggestions for memorizing and polishing your performance. ...

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