Month: February 2015
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Musical “Lenses”
Prelude in Bb minor, from the Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 J.S. Bach Improvisation on “Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days” Involuntary B. Peppe What we listen for in music has changed substantially down through the ages. During Bach’s day (the Baroque era), what marked a good composer was his capacity for ‘invention’ — that…