J.S. Bach: Why Musicians Love Him and Is He Really That Great??

Johann Sebastian Bach is widely considered the grandfather of all Western music, one of the

great

est, if not the

great

est, composer of all time, but why and exactly what is it about this music that is so

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d and admired? Let me see if I can explain why. I think this is the first reason why we use horizontal lines so often in pop, rock or even jazz music, composers and performers think of music in terms of two-part chords and the melody, a chord is a vertical event that serves. as a kind of harmonic background for the music, while the melody is a horizontal event and serves as a kind of main character of the story, so in the famous Beatles melody, don't get it wrong, there are two musical components main: the two chords. we have F major and C major and the melody of the box music can be understood and heard in this way, if we take this opening to a violin sonata of his, we can find a kind of chords and melody too, so there are two chords major, a minor and e7 and there are some melodic lines that fill the space between these two chords, however, the movement that comes directly after this is written in a style that was quite popular at a certain time in music history , is what is called a leak, so what is a leak?

Well, if we stray a little from our storytelling analogy, a fugue is a story built entirely out of characters or melodies and in which all the different characters come in at different times and put them in different costumes of a type. of setting or harmony actually the escape from this violence begins to emerge, it doesn't start like that, so there are two main characters here, there is this one who comes first and the second one who appears you can also hear how the two characters are clearly related. the second character sort of echoes the first, it has simply moved proportionally down in pitch a bit, eventually a third character even joins in and possibly a fourth sometimes the result is that there are some harmonious events taking place but no there are.

Really clear moments where I can say aha, this is when C major happens and then it goes to F major. A little more ambiguous is the study of these layered melodies and the emerging harmony that results is called counterpoint and is an extremely profound art form that was one of Bach's greatest weapons, so here's a question: what do they have in common? the music of electronic artists aphex twins and box music? Are they both equally exciting music on an equally danceable spectrum at music festivals? Were they incredible innovators? and almost everyone in their genre was influenced by them in one way or another.

Well, that could be true. What I'm referring to in particular is his use of movement. The Aphex twins' music in their busiest moments is full of movement and he achieves this. By using filling each available sixteenth note with a sound or a sample music box, when you want your music to sound a little busy, you also like to fill the sixteenth notes, for example the famous cello prelude in G major, all of which You know now, these are all just sixteenth notes and in fact the entire movement is made up of just sixteenth notes, except for a small pause in the middle of the piece, this constant flow of notes creates a great sense of movement and presents an opportunity to create patterns and relationships. but, of course, no sane performer would play this piece as a simple flurry of thoughtless sixteenth notes.

Every great performer makes little pauses or maybe pushes or pulls the tempo a little here or there, but almost magically most snare music performances are not. They are so far from each other, so how can that be the answer? It's in the snare drum composition, the phrasing, his sensitivity to counterpoint, and the incredible mathematical perfection of much of his music that is so compelling that you can almost feel as if there is a right way. interpret his music, if we would just listen to it one more time, a little more closely and learn a little more, we would

really

get inside his head and feel what he felt now after talking and talking before about how great Bach is because of all these melodies. and characters and it's more complicated than just talking about harmony the third reason I think

bach

is so great is harmony when you're not creating overlapping lines and characters or having the player rush around moving sixteenth notes there's a possibility that

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explore pure harmony one of the ways he did this was by writing a series of chorales these pieces of music have become so fundamental that almost every music student who takes a music theory course at a conservatory will spend some time to study these works. of the first compositions in the box and they are

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beautiful, so I recommend that you go and check out some of these well, whether you are a seasoned

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