Italian Concerto

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Italian Concerto. Instr. comp. by Bach for solo hpd. with 2 manuals, pubd. in 2nd section of Klavierübung, 1735. He seems to have used the term to draw attention to the facts that there are (a) passages of alternation and contrast, and (b) 3 movts., so resembling the It. concerto grosso.

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