mat@hou5d.UUCP (M Terribile) (06/21/84)
As I drove in thiis morning, I heard the fantasy from Bach's Chromatic
Fantasy and Fugue. Now I realize that to such right thinking admirers
of Schoenberg and Cage as we have on this net, Bach is a dried out old
fossil, but maybe some of us you would stoop low enough to talk a little
about it.
How does the whirlwind movement of that ``tonal canter'' relate in the C.F.
relate to the discussion of chromaticism and the death of tonality in this
century? Or does it? Is there a method to the apparent madness of tonal
motion in the CF? How does Bach do it? (I know, this question has been
asked to kingdom come about a lot of B's work ...)
If I get an interesting answer to this, maybe I will ask about B's
Passacaglia in c ...
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from Mole End
Mark Terribile
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