Willowbottom on humanity, Mozart, Bach, and more
My friend and colleague Willowbottom has an interesting post about how, unthinkingly, we risk our own humanity. Worth reading.
Her subsequent post contrasting the musical temperaments of Mozart, Bach, and Schoenberg is fascinating reading and as lyrical as her subject. But methinks it should be set to music somehow.
Me also thinks that while I agree that Bach is so effusive in his musical detail that he leaves little room for the imagination, I for one am very glad of it. The musically talented and educated Willowbottom may be very glad for the room to maneuver, but the musically untalented and uneducated me is very thankful for the ever-ebullient Bach having taken me many places that I could never have gone (or even imagined) on my own.
Her subsequent post contrasting the musical temperaments of Mozart, Bach, and Schoenberg is fascinating reading and as lyrical as her subject. But methinks it should be set to music somehow.
Me also thinks that while I agree that Bach is so effusive in his musical detail that he leaves little room for the imagination, I for one am very glad of it. The musically talented and educated Willowbottom may be very glad for the room to maneuver, but the musically untalented and uneducated me is very thankful for the ever-ebullient Bach having taken me many places that I could never have gone (or even imagined) on my own.
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The link to Willowbottom in this post works, but the link on the right side of the page does not. Just FYI.
By Anonymous, at 5:05 PM
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