{"product_id":"prelude-and-fugue-in-b","title":"Prelude and Fugue in B Minor (Harpsichord or Keyboard)","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe prelude and fugue is one of the most enduring forms in all of Western music — a pairing so fundamental to the keyboard repertoire that it practically invented the harpsichord's personality. Bach codified it, and composers have been in conversation with it ever since. This one joins that conversation respectfully, written very much in the language of the Baroque but with harmonic inflections that couldn't have come from the 18th century. The idea was to feel genuinely at home on a harpsichord without pretending the last three hundred years didn't happen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe piece was written for a harpsichord gifted to the music department at Limestone University in memory of alumnus David Kirby, and was premiered there in 2016. Limestone, a small liberal arts institution in Gaffney, South Carolina, closed its doors in 2024 — which lends this music a quiet significance it didn't originally carry. That a harpsichord, an instrument built to outlast almost everything, now carries the memory of both a person and a place feels like exactly the right kind of permanence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"White Mage Music","offers":[{"title":"Solo Score","offer_id":47942965657814,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/9666\/3510\/files\/prelude_and_fugue.png?v=1773532171","url":"https:\/\/whitemagemusic.com\/products\/prelude-and-fugue-in-b","provider":"White Mage Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}