OCR AS; IB HL/SL: Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F, BWV 1047, movements 2 and 3

This resource, designed to support the new IB set works, is an analysis of the second and third movements of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.2. The first movement, together with background information on the Brandenburg Concertos, the Baroque concerto grosso, Bach and instrumentation, was covered in a previous resource (Music Teacher, November 2015). Taken together, these two articles will provide IB teachers with detailed, relevant information for teaching the work to students.

As the context of this work was extensively discussed in the earlier article, this article will concentrate on the remaining areas: analyses of movements two and three, and relevant features of interest in these movements in terms of tonality and harmony, instrumentation, melody and rhythm.