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 Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:22 am
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" is one of my favorite songs. I performed it and listened to it many times. Most people have heard it before but simply were never told the name or they forgot the name. I think people should be more aware of Bach and all of the compositions. I would like to here some other people's thoughts on the matter.
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:22 am
It's versatile, at least; I've got an arrangement of it for cello and piano.
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the isle of the dead Crew
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:51 am
Lovely.
I love JS Bach, I think everyone needs more intimacy with his music.
Though, I find a lot of his more popular music is a little too harmonious, in vein of Mozart, perhaps. But, they are exceptional cases.
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:09 pm
I love a lot of JS Bach's works, especially the cello suites. Sometimes, though, I find his obsession with counterpoint slightly obnoxious. It's hard to listen to something like his piano inventions -- I just listened to half of the fourteenth on my computer and skipped it -- because you can't find a melody.
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:38 am
cet42 I love a lot of JS Bach's works, especially the cello suites. Sometimes, though, I find his obsession with counterpoint slightly obnoxious. It's hard to listen to something like his piano inventions -- I just listened to half of the fourteenth on my computer and skipped it -- because you can't find a melody. THere are a lot of composers like that... I just cant remember who they are sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:11 pm
I perform at weddings, vocally, and this is one song that is requested...
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:02 pm
J. S. Bach is a very intresting man. I do love this piece, but I do not think it's one of his best.
He trully knew what he was doing with conterpoint. He was a genious when it came to that.
I personally fell in love with his St. Matthews Passion and Mass in B minor when I heard them for the first time.
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:58 am
G. F. Handel cet42 I love a lot of JS Bach's works, especially the cello suites. Sometimes, though, I find his obsession with counterpoint slightly obnoxious. It's hard to listen to something like his piano inventions -- I just listened to half of the fourteenth on my computer and skipped it -- because you can't find a melody. THere are a lot of composers like that... I just cant remember who they are sweatdrop That's the kind of rigour that they seemed to go overboard with in the classical period.
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the isle of the dead Crew
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:52 am
We're playing it in my brass quintet for teh Christmas season. Fun stuff.
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:28 pm
Hey I sang that once... With the crappy middle school choir. rolleyes But it really is a great song. I don't enjoy playing Bach though...(on the piano) His music is good! mrgreen He's my third favorite composer.
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:44 pm
ooh! yeah, i play it on the piano around christmas time for my mom every year, she loves it! it's really fun the play too, well, the one that i have. it's real simple, but i love it! heart
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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:35 pm
biggrin I love Handel entirely , and that peice is one of my favourites biggrin
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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:58 pm
A funny piece of information:
Aparently J.S. Bach was mostly a second-call composer during his time. As well, his style had more or less gone out of fashion while he was producing it. It wasn't until later than people realized the value in his work.
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:20 am
You know, Bach wasn't the greatest counterpunctist. He was good, even great but doesn't measure with the English renaissance or English baroque. His greatest advantage over any other composer before or after him is the interesting use of harmonies and use of structure which is quite superior to any other composer.
Saying you don't like Bach's "too harmonious" works is like saying you don't like to hear him in his most inspired periods. Calling him obnoxious in his counterpunct is just setting your self against counterpunct. He is sometimes more uninspired then me in his voice leading (and I truly suck) in the sense that he does not even try to create dynamic inner voices in a lot of his chorals (even the better ones). What would you think of Handel's Double Fugues or Purcell's Viol fantasies?
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:45 pm
Liquid_Len You know, Bach wasn't the greatest counterpunctist. He was good, even great but doesn't measure with the English renaissance or English baroque. It was my understanding that during the Baroque period in England, they actually imported a good deal of the noteworthy composers that we attribute to that area, Handel being one of them.
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