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 ... -- from Mole End Mark Terribile (scrape..dig) hou5d!mat ,.. .,, ,,, ..,***_*.