An arrangement for alto and tenor saxophone of this minuet from the Anna Magdalena Notebook in the key of G minor and like most dance music from this era in AB or binary form. The movement has a haunting quality and is often performed with the Minuet in G BWV App.114. Like so much of the music from the collection it is a great study piece for music students and can be played by a combination of different instruments. Keep the eighth notes (quavers) as even as possible and a tempo of around 116 quarter note (crotchet) beats to the minute is suggested. Ornaments are written out in the sheet music score which is presented to the players with both parts able to be viewed. They are in place to offer a practical and musical solution. The alto saxophone plays the melody an octave lower than in the original version for keyboard. Accompaniments are in place enabling the alto and tenor saxophone players to participate in duet playing as part of practice routines. They play at 116, 120 & 120 bpm. The authorship of this minuet was only attributed to its true composer Christian Petzold in the 1970’s. It was included in the Bach family music collection Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach and incorrectly attributed to J.S.Bach. As music was largely copied by hand in Bach’s time mistakes were often made with regard to the authorship of music. For researchers and musicologists this is very much an unending task.
