The significance of Bach's music is due in large part to the scope of his intellect. He is perhaps best known as a supreme master of counterpoint. He was able to understand and use every resource of musical language that was available in the baroque era.
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Amazon.com: Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism) (9780521803465): David Yearsley: Books.
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Counterpoint in the Style of J.S. Bach (Paperback) ... Once again, this book shouldn't be undertaken without at least a year's study in traditional harmony, and a years in species counterpoint. Once this has been acomplished, the study of Bach's counterpoint is the logical continuation.
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He provides a balanced view of various possibilities for the meanings behind Bach's counterpoint technique, presenting original "composite theories" that take the most salient points of several previous theories and find out how they may be combined, or how they each might have had their own influence.
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Student project: Analysing Bach's counterpoint with Machine Learning ... Bach's music makes heavy use of counterpoint (the use of several independent melodies in parallel). ... Typically, counterpoint is developed from a single theme, as in canons and fugues, which occurs repeatedly in all parts,
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The text begins with note against note exercises and proceeds to florid counterpoint. Simultaneously, the principles of tonal harmony are practiced in the same graduated exercises. The text concludes with the analysis and composition of three-voice fugues in the style of J. S. Bach.
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Following methods known to have been adopted by Bach himself, the exercises are graded in such a way as to encourage the student to develop both technique and imagination within a closely defined framework. The exercises, taken largely from Bach's keyboard works, enable students to test their understanding of counterpoint...
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visual phenomena, optical illusion, visual illusion ... So, if the explanation seems gibberish, simply enjoy the phenomenon ;–). Otherwise, there is a short paper: Bach & Poloschek (2006) Optical Illusions primer.
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Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint, David Yearsley, 9780521803465, Cambridge University Press ... 1. Vor deinen Thron and the art of dying; 2. The alchemy of Bach's Canons; 3. Bach's taste for pork and canary; 4. The autocratic regimes of A Musical Offering; 5. Bach the machine; 6. Physiognomies of Bach's counterpoint.
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Stephen Johnson leads a workshop on the Preludes and Fugues of Bach and Shostakovich, recorded in Manchester earlier this year as part of the Royal Northern College of Music's mini-festival exploring Bach and counterpoint. ... Skip to main content ... Text only version of this page...
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