Despite international condemnation and threats to cut off emergency supplies of choir boys, Bach went ahead with his double leading-tone launch using forbidden parallel octave technology.
BWV 232, XIV. Patrem omnipotentem

Despite international condemnation and threats to cut off emergency supplies of choir boys, Bach went ahead with his double leading-tone launch using forbidden parallel octave technology.

BWV 232, XIV. Patrem omnipotentem

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Thomas Feng continues to undermine Western civilization by pointing out a fifth approached by similar motion, followed by parallel fifths, followed by uranium enrichment.
BWV 301, Du, o schönes Weltgebäude

Thomas Feng continues to undermine Western civilization by pointing out a fifth approached by similar motion, followed by parallel fifths, followed by uranium enrichment.

BWV 301, Du, o schönes Weltgebäude

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Rebuke to Bach: excerpt from the consistory proceedings

Actum, February 21, 1706

Reprove him for having hitherto made many curious variationes in the chorale, and mingled many strange tones in it, and for the fact that the Congregation has been confused by it. In the future, if he wished to introduce a tonus peregrinus, he was to hold it out, and not to turn too quickly to something else or, as had hitherto been his habit, even play a tonus contrarius.

Recent scholarship by bwv1080 points to this disciplinary note as the largest contributing factor to J. S. Bach’s infamous Arnstadt nude streak of 1706.

The term false relation can also be used to describe your relationship to the people you found yourself with but realized were total strangers when you finally sobered up at 4am in the back of a Mexican gay bar on New Year’s Eve. Here’s to 2012!
BWV 12, I. Sinfonia

The term false relation can also be used to describe your relationship to the people you found yourself with but realized were total strangers when you finally sobered up at 4am in the back of a Mexican gay bar on New Year’s Eve. Here’s to 2012!

BWV 12, I. Sinfonia

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Rebuke to Bach for inviting a female visitor into the choir loft: excerpt from the consistory proceedings

Actum, November 11, 1706

Ask him by what right he recently caused the unfamiliar maiden to be invited into the choir loft and let her make music there.

Right…’make music’.

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Parallel octaves in the Christmas Oratorio. Bach - just subversive, or secretly the antichrist? Happy holidays!
BWV 248, XIX. Schlafe, mein Liebster, genieße der Ruh’

Parallel octaves in the Christmas Oratorio. Bach - just subversive, or secretly the antichrist? Happy holidays!

BWV 248, XIX. Schlafe, mein Liebster, genieße der Ruh’

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theleadingtone rightly points out that Bach is in violation of international law on the production and use of clusters.
BWV 245, XXId. Kreuzige, kreuzige!

theleadingtone rightly points out that Bach is in violation of international law on the production and use of clusters.

BWV 245, XXId. Kreuzige, kreuzige!

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“It’s coffee I must have!”
Bach is right - if we legalize gay marriage, then women will start wanting to marry coffee n’ shit.
BWV 211, IV. Ei! Wie schmeckt der Kaffee süße (Oh, how sweet coffee tastes!)

“It’s coffee I must have!”

Bach is right - if we legalize gay marriage, then women will start wanting to marry coffee n’ shit.

BWV 211, IV. Ei! Wie schmeckt der Kaffee süße (Oh, how sweet coffee tastes!)

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HONEY BADGER DON’T GIVE A SHIT, HONEY BADGER JUST JUMPS IN AND OUT OF DISSONANCES
BWV 232, I. Kyrie

HONEY BADGER DON’T GIVE A SHIT, HONEY BADGER JUST JUMPS IN AND OUT OF DISSONANCES

BWV 232, I. Kyrie

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The problem here is that sooner or later we’ll run out of either parallel fifths or kittens.
BWV 323,  Gott sei uns gnädig und barmherzig

The problem here is that sooner or later we’ll run out of either parallel fifths or kittens.

BWV 323, Gott sei uns gnädig und barmherzig

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