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Invention in D Minor
By Ernesto | April 26, 2008
I was messing around with Bach’s Invention in D minor today, and came up with a cool way to play it on the guitar. By simply transposing the bottom voice up an octave it becomes very playable and sounds quite nice.
The only catch is that the two voices cross each other at times. Here’s the first four bars:
In the fourth bar we already run into trouble; The bottom voice jumps up to a B while the top voice has just played a G below it. However, here it doesn’t bother me. To my ears, the lines still maintain their independence.
Later on there some parts where the lines do get confused. Still trying to decide what’s the best way to fix it: phrasing? Octave displacement? Or what the hell, maybe I’ll just leave it. It still sounds good…
I hope to have the full arrangement in the next few days.
Topics: Counterpoint, Guitar |
