Drawing with Bach

Music by J.S. Bach "Das wohltemperierte Klavier"

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Film & Animation

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• drawing
• art
• bach
• painting
• kunst
• zeichnung

[Od1n90]

The piano was very nice, but the drawing part, didnt match with the song...

[mlmffa2]

ci fosse una logica, andasse a tempo, cambiasse inbase agli accordi, fosse coerente all'interpretazione... niente...

[masterofheroes1]

Prelude in C... great piece

[shaivista]

that was beautiful

[paradoxicus]

"Ese gracil y eterno bucle".

Inspirado registro cromatico.Bach es la Matematica.

La belleza fuera de este mundo.

[wcbroccoli]

Bach never had his Well-Tempered Clavier printed, but during his lifetime and afterwards it was widely circulated in manuscript.

In the title page he wrote: "For the use and profit of the musical youth desirous of learning as well as for the pastime of those already skilled in this study."

It occurs to me that if Bach had in mind an

unknown system of tuning, he would have described that system in sufficient detail in the manuscript rather than encode it in cryptic loops.

[wcbroccoli]

In recent years there have been several proposals of temperaments derived from the handwritten pattern of apparently ornamental loops on Bach's 1722 title page of the Well-tempered Clavier.

Despite this recent research however, many musicologists say it is insufficiently proven that Bach's looped drawing signifies anything reliable about a tuning method. Bach may have tuned differently per occasion, or per composition, throughout his career.

[wcbroccoli]

Equal temperament had been described by theorists and musicians for at least a century before Bach's birth.

Research has continued into various unequal systems contemporary with Bach's career.

Accounts of Bach's own tuning practice are few and inexact. The two most cited sources are Forkel, Bach's first biographer, and Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, who received information from Bach's sons and pupils, and Johann Kirnberger, one of those pupils.

[wcbroccoli]

Forkel reports that Bach tuned his own harpsichords and clavichords and found other people's tunings unsatisfactory; his own allowed him to play in all keys and to modulate into distant keys almost without the listeners noticing it. Marpurg and Kirnberger, in the course of a heated debate, appear to agree that Bach required all the major thirds to be sharper than pure—which is in any case virtually a prerequisite for any temperament to be good in all keys.

[wcbroccoli]

Between 1724 and 1732 Johann Georg Neidhardt

described a range of unequal and near-equal temperaments (as well as equal temperament itself), which can be successfully used to perform some of Bach's music, and were later praised by some of Bach's pupils and associates. J.S. Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach himself published a rather vague tuning method which was close to but still not equal temperament: having only "most of" the 5ths tempered, without saying which ones or by how much.