RE: (western) classical music discussion
March 19, 2015 at 2:55 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2015 at 2:57 pm by Alex K.)
(March 19, 2015 at 2:19 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I love me some Bach, especially when revoiced:
His counterpoint always stunned me, and we was far ahead of his time in anticipating chromatic substitution as a way of navigating a harmonic progression.
Talking about revoicing,
I've read that some musicologists suspect that the toccata was originally a piece for violin, which would explain some formal oddities which are atypical for Bach's organ music.
(March 19, 2015 at 2:39 pm)Dystopia Wrote: I find Beethoven's symphony 1 part one to be absolutely gorgeous, perhaps even more than the 9th symphony (or maybe this is just a classical music noob making bad assumptions)
Or maybe you simply like the more traditional style of classical Symphony as established by J. Haydn, better.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
