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During the first part of episode 9 of _Boogiepop Phantom_ , we meet Saki
Yoshizawa, a high school student who plays piano. [When her cell phone
rings](https://youtu.be/GvkB3-JNPYY?t=2m44s) while they are on their way to a
piano lesson, Saki's kouhai points out that Saki is using "Bach's étude" as
her ringtone, and Saki, who is a second year student, replies that it is her
"test piece" for "next year."

This appears to also be [the piece that plays in the
background](https://youtu.be/GvkB3-JNPYY?t=3m15s) during the students' piano
lesson. (The music starts playing while Saki's kouhai is having her lesson,
but given that it is _Saki_ who has to prepare the piece, it is uncertain
whether this is what the kouhai is actually playing; the kouhai's responses in
the conversation about the ringtone also do not strike me to be those that
someone playing the same piece would have.)

I do not remember J.S. Bach to be a composer who wrote "études" for keyboard:
Bach did write pedagogical material, but I cannot recall a single piece of his
that is labelled as an étude. I also tried searching for `bach "étude"
site:imslp.org` to see if [the IMSLP
archive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Music_Score_Library_Project)
had something relevant, but nothing came up.

With this in mind, what is the actual title of the Bach piece that Saki is
learning and using for her ringtone? If the piece is part of a multi-movement
work, I would also like to know the specific movement that is quoted in
_Boogiepop Phantom_ ,


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Which Bach piece is Saki Yoshizawa using for her ringtone?


This is [the A major prelude](https://youtu.be/9fU40nXwQts?t=5245) of Book II
of [_The Well-Tempered Clavier_](https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Well-
Tempered-Clavier-BWV-846-893); I was able to identify it by inputting the
first few beats of the piece into [Musipedia](https://musipedia.org). As noted
in my question, Bach is not commonly associated with works that are titled as
"etudes." However, _The Well-Tempered Clavier_ was written originally as
pedagogical material, which might warrant such a casual description.

Moreover, this might be characterized as an "etude" as Bach is often assigned
to keyboard students, although the inventions and sinfonias seem much more
common.


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