Arguments about Musical Direction within a Genre

Have been around for a HELLA long time beeyatch:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayrev...69,00.html

'Bach's final work was a tribute to Frederick the Great. Or so the story goes. If you read between the notes, says James Gaines, you will find a devastating attack on everything the king stood for '

Did you get a job???!!

[Macc]

bach had to invent canons that could be placed around frederick's theme, and this he did, royally. there has never been a volley of canons like it.

classical editzzz ghuy

Hell no. I'm in college!! Studying networking...

'Bach represented church music, especially the "learned counterpoint" of canon and fugue, a centuries-old craft that by now had developed such esoteric theories and procedures that some of its practitioners saw themselves as the custodians of a quasi-divine art.'

'Frederick and the generation of Bach's sons were having none of that. They denigrated counterpoint as the vestige of an outworn aesthetic, extolling instead the "natural and delightful" in music, by which they meant the easier pleasure of song, the harmonic ornamentation of a single line of melody'

Bach's just a hater man, it's all about the natural and delightful in music!!

Bach = Naphta

Baphta!!!

Heh

Bach = Naphta

Baphta!!!

Heh

Bach's just a hater man!!

baphta....

[Statto]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayrev...69,00.html

i read that article too
interesting stuff