January 2012
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Apologies and a flip chorale
School is a clusterfuck and doesn’t permit frequent updates. So here is a flip chorale by yours truly and a promise for more of this tasteful and venerable Bach scholarship in the near future.
Found some crazy excerpt and want to let the world know? Send it in! Do my job for me or else. Did you hear about the Chinese businessman who died from poisoned cat soup? Yeah, that was Bach.
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Rebuke to Bach: excerpt from the consistory...
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...
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December 2011
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Rebuke to Bach for inviting a female visitor into...
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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