Editing Goldberg Variations (section)

=== Variatio 14. a 2 Clav. ===
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This is a rapid two-part hand-crossing toccata in {{time signature|3|4}} time, with many trills and other ornamentation. It is specified for two manuals and features large jumps between registers. Both features (ornaments and leaps in the melody) are apparent from the first bar: the piece begins with a transition from the G two octaves below middle C, with a lower mordent, to the G two octaves above it with a trill with initial turn.

Bach uses a loose inversion motif between the first half and the second half of this variation, "recycling" rhythmic and melodic material, passing material that was in the right hand to the left hand, and loosely (selectively) inverting it.

Contrasting it with Variation 15, [[Glenn Gould]] described this variation as "certainly one of the giddiest bits of neo-Scarlatti-ism imaginable."<ref name="Gould Page">{{harvnb|Gould|Page|2002}}</ref>