Bach's well-tempered clavier

Musical Opinion;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......and for the older Bach the two could not...method known as equal temperament and to demonstrate...15th Century and equal temperament, suggested, or...in microtones. Bach probably transposed...instrument tuned in equal temperament. Similar collections...musical thought ...

HOW EQUAL TEMPERAMENT RUINED HARMONY (and Why You Should Care)

Fanfare;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...HOW EQUAL TEMPERAMENT RUINED HARMONY (and...also generally tuned in equal temperament, which means that each...a large extent from Bach's interest in the matter...style that did not imply equal temperament. Duffin's presentation...general adoption of equal ...

Healthy Bach back for Blazer challenge

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 11, 1992 ;     435 words ...PORTLAND, Ore. John Bach was standing in front of the mirror last...attack. "Athletes in general feel immortal," Bach said. "In this business, you don't feel...elixir of basketball." It was then that Bach, the Bulls' defensive coach for the last...

Creative Responses to Bach from Mozart to Hindemith.(Review)

Notes;  June 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Edited by Michael Marissen. (Bach Perspectives, 3.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska...ISBN 0-8032-1048-5. $55.] The third volume of Bach Perspectives offers engaging reading not only for Bach scholars, but for undergraduate students and amateurs...

J. S. Bach in the Twenty-First Century: The Chapel Becomes a Larder

The Hudson Review;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Bach is sometimes referred to as the father of Western music...Osvaldo Golijov. Who else could be the father of Western music? Bach is in the very chemistry of Western musical blood, like red...white cells, and platelets in our material plasma. But if Bach is The Father, why hasn't he fired the popular ...

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (And Why You Should Care)

Strings;  March 1, 2007 ;     381 words ...How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (And Why You Should Care) by Ross W...Ross W. Duffin explores the, er, evil implications of equal temperament THIS SLENDER, ELEGANTLY ARGUED BOOK gives modern musicians...suggests that we might reconsider our blind fealty to equal temperament (aka ...

When he plays Bach, Russian-born pianist Vladimir Feltsman means...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  June 17, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Don't ask a pianist why he plays Bach, says Vladimir Feltsman. Ask rather _ should...increasingly distinguished by his dedication to Bach. ``It's the ultimate in music!'' he adds...Feltsman will perform an entire evening of Bach keyboard concertos on the opening weekend...

WOLFF ILLUMINATES BACH'S WORLD WITH AUTHORITY

The Boston Globe;  July 14, 2000 ;     700+ words ...What there is to know about Bach, Christoph Wolff knows. (In fact, even...subject.) And everything Wolff knows about Bach's life, he has poured into this new and...is an additional virtue of his book. Bach was a learned musician; within days of...

C.P.E. Bach Studies.(Book review)

Notes;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...C. P. E. Bach Studies. Edited by Annette Richards. New...notes. That winds of change in C. P. E. Bach research are actively blowing across folios...minimal treatment until recent years--namely, Bach's lively connections with North German literary...

Johann Sebastian Bach's quarter millennium

Musical Opinion;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...On 28 July we celebrate the 250th Anniversary of Bach's death. Geoffrey Crankshaw meditates on Bach in the 21 st Century. The 250th Anniversary of Bach's death finds his music per formed and recorded on a world-wide scale as...

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care).(Book...

Notes;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why...standardization of ET [equal temperament] became so overwhelming...expense of others. In equal temperament (ET), twelve fifths are...so dissonant. (p. 38). Bach's well temperament was not the same as equal temperament. ...

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: His Life in Pictures and Documents, with CD, Hans...

The American Organist;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: His Life in Pictures and Documents, with...34387. $25. Since 1802, when the first Bach biography appeared, the number of books...documents and lavish color pictures that bring Bach and his time to life. The book is arranged...

Bach to the future.(Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work)(Book review)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: LIFE AND WORK by MARTIN GECK Harcourt...THE COLLECTED WORKS of Johann Sebastian Bach take up slightly more than six feet of...near mountain of secondary materials on Bach and you have a continent of data that must...

BACH to the future; Bach to the future

The Press;  July 19, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Composer Johann Sebastian Bach died 250 years ago, but his music lives...250 years the music of Johann Sebastian Bach still comforts, beguiles, and inspires...in the world's affections and respect? Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany, in 1685...

Classy Bach Shocked At Timing of Release

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 2, 1994 ;     460 words ...It was high noon, and John Bach showed up at the Berto Center right on cue. Bach looks and talks like a wily old sheriff, but in what...final act as a member of the Bulls' coaching staff, Bach didn't fire any shots before riding out of town. The...