©Hendrik Bouman, Little Bach Track
in F major
Music - Baroque style
Composer - Hendrik Bouman
Performer - Hendrik Bouman
World Première - Concerts Chapelle historique du Bon Pasteur, of the City of Montréal, Québec, Canada 1997
Recorded - Chapelle historique du Bon Pasteur,
Montréal, Québec, Canada 1997
Harpsichord - Italian style, designed and built by Hendrik Bouman, 1997
©Hendrik Bouman, Little Bach Track
en Fa majeur
Musique - style baroque
Compositeur - Hendrik Bouman
Interprète - Hendrik Bouman
Première mondiale - Concerts Chapelle historique du Bon Pasteur, de la Ville de Montréal, Canada 1997
Enregistré - Chapelle historique du Bon Pasteur,
Montréal, Québec, Canada 1997
Clavecin - style italien, conçu et fabriqué par Hendrik Bouman, 1997
Little Bach-Track is one of my earlier harpsichord compositions and forms the prelude to my Suite in F major, called ’Sweet’. As the name suggests it traces my road back with a hint of nostalgia to Johann Sebastian Bach, notably the maestro who wrote those enchanting Preludes for beginners.
Somewhat improvising on Bach’s principles, in my composition the right hand moves in a continuous strain of triplets, often in the form of arpeggios, while the left hand underpins each triplet group. From behind these two obvious parts emerges, as if representing a third part, a slow melody that is woven around the first notes of each bar.
Although the piece breathes a certain innocence, the harmonious development in its second half gradually shifts away till it lands on a point d’orgue on the bass note E which, in terms of harmony, is relatively remote from the home key, F major. Subsequently, as if attracted
by a magnet, the following harmonies find their way back naturally to the F major tonality in which the piece is set.
Hendrik Bouman, Toulouse, 2019
©Hendrik Bouman: Little Bach-Track, 1997
Hendrik Bouman - harpsichordist
