A major interpretational feature of this piece is to achieve the subjective accent on the first of each pair of quaver chords occurring throughout.
Accompaniment is contrapuntal, using 4 or 6 quaver patterns.
After that there 's a longer note - a dotted quaver plus a crotchet tied together as one note.
After that there's a longer note - a dotted quaver plus a crotchet tied together as one note.
Alto drummers may reinforce the desired impression of quaver triplets by playing their parts as in Figure 1. Figure 1.
It should be a dotted crotchet followed by a quaver tied to a crotchet followed by a quaver tied to a crotchet.
Note that the quaver in bar 7 adds a 7th feeling to the music.
Quaver passages should, in general, rise in intensity and purpose as the notes rise, and die as they fall.
The typical quaver movement which characterizes Bach 's chorales is largely confined to the Bass.
Together with this, in the inner part, there is steady quaver motion.