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How would you describe JS Bach music?
Bach’s music is soft and gentle, often suffused with piercing tenderness. His style has been called “feminine,” a dated way of saying that Bachian geometry is free of angles and that the shortest path from A to B is a spiraling curve.
Why is JS Bach’s works important and influential?
Johann Sebastian Bach is regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. He is celebrated as the creator of many masterpieces of church and instrumental music. His compositions represent the best of the Baroque era.
Why is JS Bach the best?
An extremely important reason that Bach is so good is his intense study of music itself. He referenced so many composers, both older and contemporary. Listen to the use of melody and phrasing in his organ works to see how Bach developed his own take in due course.
What is so great about Bach?
Bach, the most human of all composers, gets to your soul through your body. As ill fate would have it, his public image has been defined by difficult pieces (eg, the Art of Fugue) or lesser works of dubious attribution (eg, the Toccata in Dm).
What is Bach’s style of Art?
His style has been called “feminine,” a dated way of saying that Bachian geometry is free of angles and that the shortest path from A to B is a spiraling curve. I’ll go further. While fond of the opera, Bach shunned its adult dispositions, leaving the hormonal out of his art’s emotional makeup.
Did Bach do despair in his music?
Upon discovering, back from a trip, that his beloved wife had died unexpectedly, Bach sat down to compose in her memory… a dance. An open challenge among Bach aficionados to point to unmitigated despair in his oeuvre has remained unanswered: Bach, like Ellington, doesn’t do despair. Music is uniquely physical among the arts.
How did Bach stretch the idea of ambiguity?
Bach stretched the idea further by decorating his texts with generous aural imagery. Bear with me and soon you’ll be hearing chirping birds, rolling dice, rocking babies, and flames dancing in the wind. Each time, the accompanying text lifts the ambiguity (at least if you speak German).