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Re: All of Bach

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Post by HanyouHottie »

peeters wrote: post #23

Man, am I going to love this. Can't wait for some of the cello solos. If anybody from the website is reading this, I have a tiny criticism: clicking anywhere on the page while the video is running closes the video. I don't know if I'm representative, but I often click in empty space to make sure my keyboard focus isn't in the video. I was disappointed when the organist was so abruptly cut off!

Yay! I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this.

It also annoys me when what appears to be the background of a webpage is actually a link to somewhere, as I inevitably end up clicking it when trying reset the focus.

Re: All of Bach

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Post by jvandonsel »

I'd love to watch this on my large living room television via Roku+Vimeo, but apparently the AofB people have decided to make their Vimeo-hosted videos private and only viewable via their own site. Pity.

Re: All of Bach

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Post by lylejohnson »

8ig8 wrote: post #97
gone35 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm using Safari on an iPad, and for a moment I can see the page, but then it quickly disappears behind an impenetrable solid-black screen with nothing on it but the prompt: "Tilt your screen." It's a shame, and it doesn't befit the wondrousness of the content. Whoever came up with this brilliant UI idea should seriously re-evaluate what usability means to them.

Same here. If anyone is curious, here's a screenshot[1] from an iPad mini. Tapping, tilting, reloading do nothing. [1] http://i.imgur.com/lW3gZOw.jpg Edit: Figured it out after actually looking at the graphic. You need to turn (not tilt) the device to landscape.

Even looking at the graphic, I didn't understand --- I thought they wanted me to tilt my iPad along the horizontal axis (pitch). When that didn't work I tried tilting on vertical (roll). It wasn't until the tablet slipped in my hands enough to rotate sideways that I got a clue.

Re: All of Bach

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Post by analog31 »

marquis wrote: post #15
ambler0 wrote: post #11

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Fun fact: Paul Simon lifted the basic harmony and melody for his song "American Tune" from that piece, which itself lifted them from an earlier piece. Remixing is not a new phenomenon! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Tune

Until the age of recorded commercial music it was considered completely normal to lift tunes, harmonies, anything recognisable, from other composers. In classical music it's generally considered a complement, more rarely a parody. Copyright has been around for much longer with printed music: as early as the 1500's we see Henry 8th issuing protections. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_music_publishing#Cop...

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal." -- Stravinsky

Re: All of Bach

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Post by Gravityloss »

bane wrote: post #101

And to think, his music was almost forgotten. It wasn't until Mendelssohn almost single handedly revived his music nearly a hundred years after Bach's death. A surprising number of great composers that came after didn't even know of him, yet when they were exposed to his music suddenly started picking up select elements of his style. He was one of the few composers Mozart admired. A stunning triumphant genius who's m…

Bach's friend Telemann is also relatively unknown today. He was extremely productive and there are lots of great pieces, I especially love some of his trumpet works. They are played on the radio occasionally.

Re: All of Bach

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Post by rspeer »

oalders wrote: post #98
nkuttler wrote: post #90

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No audio system comes close to sitting in front of a symphony orchestra with a hundred or more different sound sources.

This is absolutely correct, but for choral music Janet Cardiff's 40 Part Motet might actually come close. http://www.cardiffmiller.com/artworks/inst/motet.html

Better than close. When in real life would you get to hear a choir of that caliber, and just walk into the middle of them singing?

Re: All of Bach

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Post by oe »

None of the videos work on Chrome version 34.0.1847.131 / OS X 10.9.2. Just a black screen and the play head stays at 0:00.

Re: All of Bach

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Post by justincormack »

egh wrote: post #49
cschmidt wrote: post #35

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There is the http://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com , which is a streaming service with tons of classical. Currently 96,609 albums with 1,403,008 tracks, the vast majority of which is classical. They have 3620 albums of J.S. Bach music (and quite a few more of the rest of the Bach family). It is a little pricey, but I've always been tempted to subscribe.

The Berkeley public library subscribes to this and allows remote streaming. Maybe your local public library does too.

Turns out my local library subscribes, thanks for suggesting I look...

Re: All of Bach

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Post by alxndr »

raamdev wrote: post #56

I can't seem to find an RSS feed for these... that would be really helpful. This seems like a great way to consume large volumes of things that one might not otherwise ever get to... 10 minutes a week for 20 years seems a lot more doable than committing several months to consuming all 1080 works. Now I'm thinking about how I can apply this to other large-volume things that I've wanted to consume, like reading the ent…

re an RSS feed, I'm hoping this will work: http://page2rss.com/rss/2e0975882fe2ca00334efc6c462fd272

Re: All of Bach

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Post by bane »

Gravityloss wrote: post #135
bane wrote: post #101

And to think, his music was almost forgotten. It wasn't until Mendelssohn almost single handedly revived his music nearly a hundred years after Bach's death. A surprising number of great composers that came after didn't even know of him, yet when they were exposed to his music suddenly started picking up select elements of his style. He was one of the few composers Mozart admired. A stunning triumphant genius who's m…

Bach's friend Telemann is also relatively unknown today. He was extremely productive and there are lots of great pieces, I especially love some of his trumpet works. They are played on the radio occasionally.

Thanks for bringing up Telemann. I wouldn't say he's unknown today, but definitely not in the "pop" composer category the way Bach is. His music is definitely in the repertoire of most serious violinists while studying late Baroque.

Here's one I studied for a while when I was studying the instrument many years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OQ0jPy8FrQ

and another I never had the chance to study but enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2rt5sPHc98

I was always torn between playing Baroque music in the modern style or in the contemporary style. I find incredible enjoyment in hearing the music on period instruments played in the style. The music's texture changes so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhTqpmHu5yg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vosK-NKq9FQ

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