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What a load of gobbledygook. “It bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It’s not. It’s feeling.” - Bill Evans. Substitute 'jazz' for 'music'. It's a feeling.

Anyone coming here please do not take this video as an example of the greatness of Bach. This is probably the worst video on YT on Bach. You are better off picking any other video at random than this claptrap. I see one right now Vision Video, the life of JS Bach. You will learn more and probably be inspired to buy recordings of Bach or start playing an instrument. This video is empty intellectual nonsense with bad musicians playing the quartet, out of tune with terrible bowing.

This is such bullshit. She thinks she is talking about the music but she manages to say very close to nothing meaningful about it. The philosophical sidetracks are complete nonsense. She seems to think she is giving helpful insights, but literally just looking at the score for 30 seconds tells me more about it than this whole video. I don't want to be cruel, but I think she is seriously confused.

This is associated with a crackpot political group Larouche PAC, dedicated to the teachings of Lyndon Larouche

As as 40 year professor of music and classical pianist I can firmly state that this is such a load of pretentious nonsense that I must run to the.. .

Yes, yes, that's all well and good....but can she actually play Stairway to Heaven ?

Excruciatingly bad audio examples.

What is the name of the series?

it's a tonal inversion...but there's also an augmented version in the 2nd violin

All gobbledygook. Can't stand people who waffle and don't come to the point. Get ON with it! I doubt that Bach would have had any idea what she was talking about either with her references to de Kusa and Keplar and "the mind". Bach was a working musician and he had no time for "dry mathematical stuff" (CPE Bach). He had a job to do and he got on with it, for which we can only be eternally grateful. And what was the point of the three sacks of potatoes sitting next to her? Some kind of silent human counterpoint?

This is hands down the greatest video I have ever watched. This is the fourth time I have watched it with rapt attention, which, by the way, is the equally great example this video presents us with. The way this brilliant speaker is LISTENED to is the best example of human behavior. I wish this video would be shown to all young students in school so they can see humanity at its best. Bach is the genius that makes this possible. The level of philosophy that this presentation elucidates is human thought at its loftiest accomplishment. Thank you! You have raised me to a level of my possible nature that I had not done on my own. A true giving experience of the highest possible ethical and intelligent interaction. Mind!

I believe that Mozart would literally copy Bachs works in order to study them, something we sometimes do today in order to scrutinize what exactly is happening in the music. I love how we are not much different today. The idea of setting organ fugees to strings id a great idea since it is often even a challenge to hear all the parts on a piano. Strings, with more easily discernible voicings, really allow you to hear/experience all the nuance that i think would be harder on an organ, which would just hit you in the face lol. And for the salon studio, would be practically less violent lol. Very interesting breakdown here, would like to see more.

This is ridiculous! AKA claptrap.

what the actual feck?

Dave is the man,

The written statement in the beginning couldn't be more arrogant. There's multiple ways to appreciate and relate to music, many of them happening simultaneously. Eurocentric fuckery in a nutshell.

I've never heard anybody allege that prince hits women

The overall explanation of Bach's method was ok I guess... but a 'man' would have done a much better job.... obviously.... I think that this dingy broad needs to grab her flute and hurry back to band camp....

yeah rip and shit

Steve Albini was incredibly genuine in an industry that often celebrates phonies and mediocrity. So sad he's no longer with us but I'm grateful for all the wonderful music & wisdom he gave us. RIP

Very interesting

What is she talking about??

Nobody cares about Hollywood. Nobody cares about major labels. Nobody cares about mainstream radio crap. Steve was the real deal and knew the score. Hollywood is over. Thank the Lord.

Great assessment of How It Was vs. How It Is. Excruciating to listen to, because he's reading a prepared text word-for-word -- I finally had to skip ahead a few minutes -- but he's right, in that musicians are better off today than under the Label Regime. They still don't make much money, but for different reasons, and all the BS in the middle is pretty much gone. Maybe that's good!

''lol, this s*cks''

RIP.

most labels = scam

legend rip

This is a very nice lecture, but I’m not a fan of how Bach’s genius here is presented as omnipotent or unachievable. He learned composition through the study of basso continuo/partimento with his brother. He then took this knowledge and later expanded upon it.

"We're going to be looking at Ba...HCQUE"

Any idea who that presenter is?

Grandiloquence

Bach's music is very simply explained: it's the holy divine geometry in music.

the amount of nonsense from the lady is outstanding!! YES, mathematics is everywhere, but that does not mean KEPLER has ANYTHING to do with music harmony, music experience, etc, etc. It is OUTRAGEOUS to have someone distorting history so shamelessly. BACH did not START anything. Music is a continuum. Counterpoint was not invented by JSBACH. Thinking music in terms of independent voices was not invented by JSBACH either. It was a process. There is no BACH if there is no Machaut. There is no Machaut if there are not early medieval composers. BACH did not invent the FUGUE technique. It is mediocre and IGNORANT to think that Bach is the beginning of anything.

I saw the far right wing organization "Larouche PAC" on the screen in the background and immediately stopped. I already know a minute in that they are going to make sweeping universal claims about art and how "today's society is not a sophisticated as yesterday's." or liken common people or pop music to something that is dumbing down the masses. I'm done with this elitist bullshit in classical music. This is Classical music's struggle to stay relevant, Classical musicians and educators need to stop aligning ourselves with these charlatans that know nothing about the history of this music, and live in a world where we realize that art and culture are varied and that there is no objective truth in pleasing patterns that differ from culture to culture.

why does this string quartet sound horribly out of tune?

What is this a recording of? I wish there was more information about who these people are and when this was recorded.

Well.... actually a pretty good presentation....

Didn’t LaRouch run for president a bunch of times?

Amazing instrument and sound. I wish I could hear the cello version, and also a whole ensemble.

this is very disappointing and frankly incoherent, don’t bother listening. the speaker doesn’t seem to understand music history at all; Bach’s methods were similar to his contemporaries and had nothing to do with “Kuza” (whoever that is) or Kepler. Also, a lot of music then WAS composed starting with a melody above a figured bass. And her fugue “analysis” is ponderous and unenlightening. i’m (seriously!) a big fan of pretentious overly intellectual analysis of fugues but this explanation goes nowhere

3:00 complete and utter nonsense. Music hjad nothing to do with it. Especially western Music. The "discoveries" were the result of the translation movement directly preceding from Arabic.

Solid State electronics are very vulnerable to radiation. Vacuum tabes are not. That gives them a use.

What she says around 20:40 is simply false. She says the theme is compressed to just for notes, we alledgedly hear just the four notes of the head of the theme and our mind adds the rest of the theme to the whole of it. But actually the theme is always complete, it's just the entrances of the theme following each other in shorter distances, what is called "Engführung" or a stretto. Our mind doesn't have to add the "missing" notes of the theme, they are actually being played. My problem with the whole lecture is that she is presenting an analysis of this fugue that has already been analyzed multiple times for decades as if she was presenting some revolutionary thoughts, but she's not.

I absolutely hate the recording of Bach's fugue with this aweful, utterly unmusical string quartet. It's a lesson about how to butcher music.

My mind literally exploded

Sounds out of tune

inspiring

Thank you Andy, excellent work, great graphics, especially the recap.Thanks for the thorough *harmonic and rhythmic analysis. December 12th 2023

This analysis of music of Bach is completely removed from the integrative approaches he had to music, despite the complexity of all of the means of his compositional devices. That is how music of Bach had been routinely distorted from its primary purpose that Bach himself outlined very clearly - to serve as the vessel for expression of emotional feelings. Many Bach scholars forget about this because since childhood everyone had been required to withhold emotions in his music for rather irrelevant reason - to replicate his time’s dominant harpsichord and clavichord. And biological facts abut his using Pianofort had been hidden from most textbooks, fooling generations of musicians into mechanical approach to the music that is emotionally complex and satisfying as well as intellectually