This contrast helped clarify the interactions which, with the additional layer of amorphous viola da gamba chords, sometimes turns into a muddy contrapuntal sludge. Not here: this time, it was a star moment for instruments usually left in the shadows. Montoya returned with Kathie ...
The Musical Offering resulted from Bach’s visit in 1747 to the court of Frederick the Great, where his son Carl Philipp Emanuel was employed. From a theme provided by the flautist king he wrote a work that demonstrates his own contrapuntal mastery and includes a trio sonata for flute, ...
The Musical Offering resulted from Bach’s visit in 1747 to the court of Frederick the Great, where his son Carl Philipp Emanuel was employed. From a theme provided by the flautist king he wrote a work that demonstrates his own contrapuntal mastery and includes a trio sonata for flute, ...
Related Topics: musical composition See all related content chorale prelude, a short setting for organ of a German Protestant chorale melody, used to introduce congregational singing of the hymn (chorale). It is epitomized by the numerous examples composed by J.S. Bach, who built upon a 17th-...
Another musicologist, Raymond Mayland, believes that Mozart or Haydn may have been involved in their composition. Kirkendale concludes that the complete set of three-, four-, and five-part fugues originated from a manuscript that probably belonged to van Swieten.5 Bach's 'Well-Tempered Clavier'...
She also completed a Master's degree at the Eastman School of Music and received a Bachelor's degree with High Honors in Music and English Literature from Kansas Wesleyan University in 1941. In the fall of 1951 and again during the summer of 1954, she studied Bach's works as a guest in...
A fugue is a special kind of complex contrapuntal composition, wherein two or more subjects (distinct and recognisable melodies or themes, usually quite short) are introduced in imitation in each part, and then reappear throughout the composition in a variety of combinations and variations. The ...
(as Bach does so often throughout this piece) is obscured: just big blocks of sound, instead of contrapuntal lines that are easy to follow individually. What's the point of it being a fugue if those interesting free parts are going to sound merely like homophonic accompaniment to a subject...
As a child and youngster I had been taught by one of the last master-students of the legendary Helmut Walcha, and I completely had been affected by this style of insight into Bach and the internal structures. This method of regarding the independent coherence of all the voices gave me a ...
it should mean that keyboard players must also provide clear articulation according to the character and affection of individual motifs. This is the essence of contrapuntal music whereby the independence of each voice results in the harmony; this is indeed one of fundamental concepts of composition....