Editing Goldberg Variations (section)

=== Variatio 22. a 1 Clav. alla breve ===
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This variation features four-part writing with many imitative passages and its development in all voices but the bass is much like that of a fugue. The only specified ornament is a trill which is performed on a [[whole note]] and which lasts for two bars (11 and 12).

The [[ground bass]] on which the entire set of variations is built is heard perhaps most explicitly in this variation (as well as in the Quodlibet) due to the simplicity of the bass voice.