Fugue

Early Days J.S Bach was born in Eisenach Germany on March 21, 1685. Bach was one of 8 children in the Bach family. His career was shaped by his families cultural and musical interests. As a child, he went to the local latin school. He also participated in the St.Georg choir and sung as a soprano. One of Bach's more recognizable musical inabilities as a child was that he was unable to play a keyboard instrument. After Bach's parents died in 1996 Bach moved to Ohdruf where he later learned the…

A Given Gift The only person who can stop you is yourself. Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel are two composers of the Baroque Period who have made contributions to classical music, whether it is secular or Christian. Bach and Handel have similar influences, different contribution, and communal affects. Although the lives of Bach and Handel are quite different, they are like two lost twin brothers. In 1685 Europe is blessed with the birth of both Bach and Handel. Germany is their…

Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 31st of 1685 in Eisenach, Germany. The youngest child of Johann Ambrosius and Elisabeth Bach. His father was employed as a court trumpeter and director of his town musicians. When Bach was only ten years old, both of his parents were dead and he was looked after by his eldest brother, Johann Chistoph, an organist at nearby Ohrdruf. Under the supervision of his brother, Bach received formal keyboarding lessons and eventually a position in the boys’ choir at…

The overture is of the same type found in the orchestral suites of Bach. Such movements are usually regarded as consisting of a slow dotted section followed by a fugue, but many can also be viewed as sort of binary form. Often the second half is, as here, a fugue in concerto style having little in common with the first half. Yet the tonal structure is that of a binary…

of the Baroque-era. He was one of the most celebrated members of a large family of northern German musicians. He was a organist, harpsichordist, and an organ builder. Bach had composed many songs. Two songs that are well known of his are Toccata in Fugue D Minor and Mass in B Minor. His music is considered a prestigious lineage. Now a days Bach is considered as one of the greatest composers. Sebastian Bach was born March 31st, 1685 (N.S.) or March 21. 1685 (O.S.) in Eisenach, Thuringia,…

The group I was in performed “Fugue.” Christian was our director. In the play, Erin played Amy, Katelyn played Lizzy, Will played Harry, and I played Gladyce. The process itself was very relaxed. We would block and work through parts at the same time. Personally, I found it more difficult that way. Notes didn’t sink in as much because they were piled in with blocking. There were times where we’d goof off too much, and, in the end, that really hurt us because our cue pickup wasn’t as strong as…

Poetry is capable of an incredibly wide range of emotional impact; it can be beautiful, it can reveal dark truths, it can illustrate loss, etc. In the poem Death Fugue, Paul Celan takes full advantage of the emotional impact of poetry by constructing ingenious ways to reveal a collective trauma of the Jewish victims of Nazi concentration camps, even without any explicit mention of the Holocaust. Although transforming the horrendous events of the Holocaust into an art form may seem inappropriate…

1. Loewe, J. Andreas. “‘Musica Est Optimum’: Martin Luther’s Theory of Music,” Music & 0 0 0 Letters 94, no 4 (2013): 573-605 “‘Musica Est Optimum’: Martin Luther’s Theory of Music”, an article by J. Andreas Loewes begins by citing a volume written by Carl Schalk titled Luther on Music, which updated previous records on the subject written by Walter Buszin and Paul Nettl. Schalk claimed that their works “caused frustration because of a lack of documentation”, though there were other…

The St Matthew Passion is a sacred song that was written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727. It has interspersed chorales and arias as it sets to music chapters 26 and 27 of the Gospel of Matthew (Leahy, 2011). It is a great masterpiece of classic gospel music of all time. Three different excerpts of the music are analyzed in this paper with a special focus on the form, texture, harmony, relationship between text and music, and the dramatic significance. The main purpose for writing the song was…

Before Bach passed away in the eighteenth century, the audiences thought his music was old fashioned. Many of the musicians also thought his music were old fashioned because all of the younger composers in Baroque period wrote better songs than Bach. However, Mendelssohn’s performance of Bach’s piece, Liszt’s arrangement and performance of Bach’s piece, Bach’s innovative musical techniques, and influence on Vivaldi’s Italian style soon spread throughout Europe and to the world. Therefore, Bach…