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Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia - Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685–28 July 1750) was a German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together almost all of the strands of the baroque style and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he introduced no new musical forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust and dazzling contrapuntal technique, a seemingly effortless control of harmonic and motivic organisation from the smallest to the largest scales, and the adaptation of rhyt ...

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Biography

Johann Sebastian Bach - Early years

Johann Sebastian Bach - Arnstadt and Mülhausen 1703–08

Johann Sebastian Bach - Weimar 1708–17

Johann Sebastian Bach - Cöthen 1717–23

Johann Sebastian Bach - Leipzig 1723–50

Johann Sebastian Bach - Style

Johann Sebastian Bach - Works

Johann Sebastian Bach - Organ works

Johann Sebastian Bach - Other keyboard works

Johann Sebastian Bach - Orchestral and chamber music

Johann Sebastian Bach - Vocal and choral works

Johann Sebastian Bach - Performances

Johann Sebastian Bach - Transcriptions

Johann Sebastian Bach - Legacy

Johann Sebastian Bach - Media

Johann Sebastian Bach - Notes

Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia II - Johann Sebastian Bach - Biography

Johann Sebastian Bach - Early years. Johann Sebastian Bach was a member of one of the most extraordinary musical families of all time. For more than 200 years, the Bach family had produced dozens of worthy performers and composers during a period in which the church, local government and the aristocracy provided significant support for professional music making in the German-speaking world, particularly in the eastern electorates of Thuringia and Saxony. Sebastian's father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a talented v ...

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Ferruccio Busoni - Biography

Ferruccio Busoni - Busoni's music

Ferruccio Busoni - Busoni's editions

Ferruccio Busoni - Recordings

Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia - Brandenburg concertos

The six Brandenburg concertos (BWV 1046–1051) by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of instrumental works presented by Bach to the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721, but probably composed earlier. Brandenburg concertos - History. By 1721, Bach's third year as Kapellmeister at Anhalt-Cöthen, he was becoming restless and began looking for career opportunities outside the small town. As the story commonly goes, on March 24, he assembled these six concertos (which had almost certainly been performed at Cö ...

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Brandenburg concertos - History

Brandenburg concertos - The concertos: orchestral versus chamber music

Brandenburg concertos - The individual concertos

Brandenburg concertos - Brandenburg Concerto #1 in F major

Brandenburg concertos - Brandenburg Concerto #2 in F major

Brandenburg concertos - Brandenburg Concerto #3 in G major

Brandenburg concertos - Brandenburg Concerto #4 in G major

Brandenburg concertos - Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D major

Brandenburg concertos - Brandenburg Concerto #6 in B flat major

Brandenburg concertos - Other

Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia - Blood Axis

Blood Axis is the name under which journalist and author Michael Moynihan composes and releases music. Moynihan formed Blood Axis in 1989 after touring Japan at the request of experimental music pioneer, Boyd Rice. Moynihan had previously founded Coup de Grace, a multimedia project that produced live performances and cassettes and also released booklets of images and texts, the last of which ...

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Blood Axis - Discography

Blood Axis - Reviews

Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia - BWV

Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis ("Bach Works Catalogue") is the numbering system used to identify musical works by Johann Sebastian Bach. The BWV numbers were assigned by Wolfgang Schmieder in 1950, indicating the placement in the catalogue of Bach's works entitled Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke von Johann Sebastian Bach. The BWV numbers are universally used and accepted as the standard way of numbering the works of Bach, for example: "Mass in B minor, BWV 232, composed in 1733". At times the ...

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BWV - A thematical catalogue

BWV - Other cataloguing systems for Bach's compositions

BWV - Opus number - publication date

BWV - Chronological

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia - Boy soprano

Boy soprano (or treble in British English; see below) is a term applied in music to a young male singer with an unchanged voice in the soprano range. Occasionally boys whose voices have changed can continue to sing in the soprano range for a period of time. As a boy singer approaches and begins to undergo puberty, the quality of his voice increasingly distinguishes itself from that typical of girls. While the girl's voice tends to develop gradually into the richness of the adult female voice, the voice of the boy is subj ...

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Boy soprano - Popular Boy Soprano Solos

Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia - Cantata

Cantata (Italian, 'sung'), a vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement. In the 16th century, when all serious music was vocal, the term had no reason to exist, but with the rise of instrumental music in the 17th century cantatas began to exist under that name as soon as the instrumental art was definite enough to be embodied in sonatas. From the middle of the 17th till late in the 18th century a favourite form of Italian chamber music was the cantata for one or two solo voices, ...

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia - Christmas

Christmas (literally, the Mass of Christ) is a traditional holiday observed in much of the world on 25 December, or on 7 January in most Eastern Orthodox Churches. It is celebrated by most Christians to mark the birth of Jesus, which is believed to have occurred in Bethlehem in the Roman Province of Judea between 6 BC and AD 6. Christ's birth, or nativity, was said by his followers to fulfill the prophecies of Judaism that a messiah would come, from the house of David, to redeem the world from sin. Interestingly, early Christians plac ...

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Christmas - The Nativity

Christmas - Theories on the origins of Christmas

Christmas - When was the original Christmas?

Christmas - Dates of celebration

Christmas - Regional customs and celebrations

Christmas - Religious customs and celebrations

Christmas - Secular customs

Christmas - Santa Claus and other bringers of gifts

Christmas - Declaration of Christmas Peace

Christmas - Christmas cards

Christmas - Decorations

Christmas - Social aspects and entertainment

Christmas - Christmas Carol media

Christmas - Christmas in the arts and media

Christmas - Economics of Christmas

Christmas - Notes

Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia - Christmas in the media

Christmas themes have long been an inspiration to artists, writers, and weavers of folklore. Moviemakers have picked up on this wealth of material, with both adaptations of literary classics and new stories. Radio and television have also aggressively pursued entertainment and ratings through their cultivation of Christmas themes. Christmas in the media - Christmas movies and videos. Many Christmas stories have been adapted to movies and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on TV. S ...

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Christmas in the media - Christmas movies and videos

Christmas in the media - Television and Christmas

Christmas in the media - Christmas on the radio

Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia - Chorale

A chorale was originally a hymn of the Lutheran church sung by the entire congregation. In casual modern usage, the term also includes classical settings of such hymns and works of a similar character. Chorales tend to have simple and singable tunes, because they were originally intended to be sung by the congregation rather than a professional choir. They generally have rhyming words and are in a strophic form (with the same melody being used for different verses). Some chorale melodies were written by Martin Luther himself. Within a verse, most chorales follow the AAB pattern o ...

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Chorale - References and further reading

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia - Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric-François Chopin (IPA [ˈʃo̝ˌpã̝]), (March 1, 1810 – October 17, 1849) is one of the most famous, influential and admired composers for the piano. He was born "Fryderyk Franciszek", of French and Polish parentage in the village of Żelazowa Wola, Poland. In Warsaw he was hailed as a child prodigy for his keyboard and composition skill. He adopted the French variant of his name, "Frédéric-François", when he left for Paris at the age of 20, having already composed his two piano concertos, and he never retu ...

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Frédéric Chopin - Biography

Frédéric Chopin - Formative years

Frédéric Chopin - Career in Paris

Frédéric Chopin - Chopin and George Sand

Frédéric Chopin - Death and funeral

Frédéric Chopin - Music

Frédéric Chopin - Style

Frédéric Chopin - Chopin and Romanticism

Frédéric Chopin - Works

Frédéric Chopin - Media

Frédéric Chopin - Other

Frédéric Chopin - Eponyms

Frédéric Chopin - Chopin in fiction

Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Weimar, March 8, 1714 – December 14, 1788) was a German musician and composer, the second son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. He was a founder of the Classical style. When he was ten years old he entered the St. Thomas School at Leipzig, of which in 1723 his father had become cantor, and continued his education as a student of jurisprudence at the universities of Leipzig (1731) and of Frankfurt an der Oder (1735). In 1738 he took his degree, but at once abandoned all prospe ...

Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia - List of composers

Composers are generally people who write music. A strong distinction is made, however, between composers, lyricists, and performers in such genres as classical and jazz music. In other genres, such as popular and folk music, the term "songwriter" means someone who authors both music and lyrics, and is more common than "composer." If a songwriter also performs, he or she is called a "singer/songwriter." This page inclu ...

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List of composers - Film

List of composers - Ragtime

List of composers - Religious Music

List of composers - Jazz and Blues

List of composers - Orchestra

List of composers - Vocal

List of composers - Pop and Rock

List of composers - Folk and Country

List of composers - New Age

List of composers - Other classifications

Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia - BACH motif

In music, the BACH motif is the sequence of notes B flat, A, C, B natural. This four-note motif has been used by a number of composers, usually as a homage to Johann Sebastian Bach. The first known example, however, is in a piece by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck—it is possible, though not certain, that he used it in homage to one of Johann Sebastian's ancestors, many of whom were themselves musicians. The possibility of being able to spell the surname Bach in this way comes about because in German B indicates what in English is called B flat, while H indi ...

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BACH motif - Works featuring the mofif

BACH motif - Other signature motifs

Johann Sebastian Bach: Encyclopedia - Trombone

Trumpet List of classical trombonists List of jazz trombonists A lip-reed aerophone with a predominantly cylindrical bore, the trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. The most frequently encountered trombones are the tenor and bass counterparts of the trumpet. The trombone is usually characterised by a telescopic slide with which the player varies the length of the tube. The word trombone derives from Italian tromba (trumpet) - and -one (a suffix meaning large). Thus, quite ...