Johann Sebastian Bach's Great Music In Modern Times

Great Music in Modern Times In 1719, Johann Sebastian Bach began writing the fourth composition of his six Brandenburg Concertos, which took him nine years to fully complete. They were written for a chamber orchestra and were based off the Italian Concerto Grosso style. This collection of concertos is considered to be on the lighter side of Bach’s ingenious. The Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 was composed in a G major scale, is about sixteen minutes long, and consists of three movements. The first movement is played allegro, which means it has a quick tempo. The second movement is andante, meaning it has a fairly slow tempo. The third, and final, movement is played in presto, making it the fastest tempo in the piece. Bach is well-known …show more content…
It also needed a first and second violins, a viola, a cello, a violine and a cembalo as the ripieno. The piece has a largely homophonic texture which is created mainly from the violin section. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 makes an appearance in the show Hannibal, which was released in 2013 and is still airing. Hannibal was created by Bryan Fuller and stars Hugh Dancy (Will Graham), Mads Mikkelsen (Dr. Hannibal Lecter), Caroline Dhavernas (Dr. Alana Bloom), and Laurence Fishburne (Jack Crawford), with Scott Thompson (Jimmy Price), and Aaron Abrams (Brian Zeller). The series is a horrific drama which begins as a prequel to the movie Red Dragon, released in 2002, and includes the retelling of certain instances throughout the quadrilogy of the infamous Hannibal Lector story. When a series of murders erupts throughout the state of Maryland the head of the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI, Jack Crawford, realizes this predicament needs special attention. Crawford brings on Will Graham, a special investigator, to provide assistance and another set of eye of this very serious and gruesome matter. Graham has the special skill of being able to place himself in the mindset of a killer and