Research Article

A Study on Digital Analysis of Bach’s “Two-Part Inventions”

Table 6

Tonality changes in pieces of Bach’s Two-Part Inventions (based on Krumhansl’s model). The spaces listed in the third column are minimum interval spaces of the piece’s tonalities after the major and relative minor formed loops in which the relative minor and major connect together and the first column connects to last column in Tables 4 and 5.

WorksMain tonalitiesSpaces

Number 1Major C, Major G, Minor D, and Minor E1
Number 2Minor G, Rising Major A, Minor c, and Major C2
Number 3Major A, Minor B, and Major D1
Number 4Minor D, Minor A, and Major C2
Number 5Rising Major D, Minor F, and Rising Major G1
Number 6Major B, Major E1
Number 8Major F, Major C, Minor D, and Major A1
Number 13Minor E, Major C, and Minor A1
Number 14Rising Major F, Rising Major A, and Major D2