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90: MiniSeries (9/10) Revisions Part Two
Today, as we did in episode 5 of this miniseries, we’ll examine the revisions Bach made from engraving copy to handwritten copy. This is an important…
1 year, 7 months ago
89: MiniSeries (8/10) A Bachian Fractal
Show me a finale as densely packed with thematic material as this one. Here are the five bars — the only five bars — discussed in today’s episode. Yo…
1 year, 8 months ago
88: MiniSeries (7/10) Canon at MOVING Intervals
Have a look at this. This is Bach beginning a canon in inversion. The follower is a 6th below the leader:
(If you can’t see that the shapes are invers…
1 year, 8 months ago
87: MiniSeries (6/10) A Sloth Canon
Imagine composing an ornate melody, then stretching it out so it moves twice as slow, and somehow when you layer the stretched version onto the origi…
1 year, 8 months ago
86: MiniSeries (5/10) Canonic Revisions Part One
The subject of the last several episodes has been Bach’s canonic variations on a Christmas tune by Martin Luther himself. A major inquiry into this w…
1 year, 9 months ago
85: MiniSeries (4/10) Feet & LH, a 7th Apart
Let’s delve into a third variation from Bach’s 1747 masterpiece, “Some canonic variations on the Christmas song, ‘From Heaven Above’ for the organ wi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Is Pachelbel's Canon Really a Canon?
I never knew the authentic version of the world’s most famous canon, having only known arrangements which conceal the fact that the music is indeed a…
1 year, 9 months ago
84: MiniSeries (3/10) A Canon At The Fifth
Continuing our mini-series exploring Bach’s canonic variations on the Christmas song, ‘Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her’ BWV 769, we listen to the sec…
1 year, 9 months ago
83: MiniSeries (2/10) Divine Row Row Row Your Boat
The first variation in these late variations for organ, is a canon at the octave. The two hands, each on a separate keyboard, play the same shape, on…
1 year, 10 months ago
82: New MiniSeries! Bach's Christmas Puzzles
In this first of several related episodes, we will learn about Bach’s late contrapuntal masterpiece, the Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch da ko…
1 year, 10 months ago