Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles on extraordinary things about history's most extraordinary position is the fact that this man's music exerts to make that the defection for us today against which we tend to make your much of your treatment in the obviously last two centuries this music and absolutely no effect another musicians with the public feasibly the strange thing about copies of doesn't of conception of the misunderstood genius who was years ahead of his time he was certainly misunderstood but not because he was ahead of his time larry because according to the musical disposition of that day he was generations thread if you put the one i just played was already becoming is old-fashioned inbox time missus it would be if one were to sit down start writing symphonies in the manner of max treated today and baucus he grew older not only made no attempt reconcile his father temper in fact withdrew into what must have seemed to his contemporaries shirley is a maddening nostalgic for the glory speeches bc was greatest nonk and one of the supreme examples of back independence of the artistic conscience stands quite outside collective historical process the age of fox speaking in a very general sort of way was fucked we can now call the age of reason or perhaps an age of reason they're bt been quite a lot of them it was fundamentally an agent which man struggled against fear against predetermine the sea was engaged in which he asserted confidently the wonders of science and a few minutes she says both times an age of who breached defiance for the call but its most poetic it was still a major which wonderfully tivities science and the proverb genius man could co-exist i think magical mystical fearful rights and so the arc to the poetry of the music of the vote at its best is such this feeling of compromise this conciliation between the will live now begin extra vote even during the like sebastian bach this vibrant spiritual compromise which keeps such anguish in purpose and passion to his music became for other artists of his generation ever more difficult for cheap and slowly but surely and logically explainable unpredictable became the basis of and by the time of his death the world was a very good place from that into the cuban born because the world twitch longed to be logical world for young men for young life what bob died was not heat but by the his sons who are considered to be the masters of music masters of the music so very different from average their father had known tane composers like the teenager joseph haydn who are soon to lay the groundwork for a new musical style in which all of this scientific optimism all of this naively logical philosophic papa bear generation would find it covered parking and our conviction the aim would be not the communication of man dot but rather of man with men exposed traits of sebastian bach which parallel music p realization of the incredible richness and indefinable complexity of the human state could find no place to become an aging which the focus of musical activity had moved from the church to the theater and which the newark would rationally reflect a rational world in which will be required to deal with probabilities not to participate in the streets this is not to say that the aspirations transcends human condition would be forever lost art certainly it's the essence of beethoven's work for instance if we feel and struggling to strike beyond the realization of human potential but the grand juror beethoven resides in the struggle rather than in the occasional transcends cheese and it might perhaps never again be possible for us to home more than a glimpse of that inordinate state ecstasy but sebastian bach never put the question for new age new musical for the symphony and the sum up it would be instrumental performance versus aggressive new humanity builds express itself these reforms which were based from a really upon the simplification and the clarification of the system of what we call total harmony and talese forms came to hold a conception of the role of the musical theme they used fifteen other something which just was permeated every facet of the work is a bit inbox music was something unique something singularly eventful something belonging to the moment this was also the age in which the concepts of fearsome active who musical architecture became paramount for box arms with the most essentially an isolated event related propelled into a relationship really with other seems other isolated events five the divisive what's called monica modulation right the family ties of one key to another and these family relationships with the background against which this new musical architecture built its structures i'd like to sons wasn't really searching for a concise harmonic definitions of it relationship of themes his harmony his sense of architecture was immensely complex infinitely which is another sons really in front of the kind of adventures that have existed in the musical language since just wild over the sixteenth century which connects us to get in touch on bergamot twenty eg while his son's music with it's smacked of pleasure it's measured form seems to related somehow to the probabilities operation electricity with all its internally undulating harmonic motion with all its vast linear competition seems to suggest somehow be suspended perpetually transient unknown what does it come to expect great surprises musical bachmann comes across creek moments indescribable technical achievements but one has not played to expect in the course of our work anymore but any pronouncements which school work is not in inbox the sickest constancy of the country the continuous line of development the certainty of motions to come to expect essentially prabhakar was a means of expressing that state of the leaflet which experience could be making guide which only the obstructionism temptations room could unusual to come existence gingrich however the necessity defend against these temptations provoked the drama of human life if use these temptations and the constant effort which is required to expelled them with which the text of the content of the title of this cantata which russell bliss by the same with this in a moment fetus should have booked as soon get roughly translates as stand firm against signal and it's very probably by parking self certainly gets music realizing he's given an intensely urgent and uh... very open in court is one of the most striking in all of bucks from monica arsenal effect coming as it doesn't the beginning of work it's just unprecedented and both of the other movements of the scanned copy or for that wonderful torturous art intense close relation and suspension spock always reserve subs on which he felt being either passion nam today i have dancing strong style com parlor you non and me and are long monument dvd that's you know i'm not as the hi mama being used remission mom the on me remarks monster meanie constantine dean going on amending he the pain you arm the indian standing on non union indian gaming mommy the many panel card it danielle long tennessean on healing need not the indiantimes you know i'm not you know on com mom being used here the live on do you you you you've also rolling tests and the small on on arts casey all siege online inaction off newsstand salons that decent candidates and spending off canton this island seeing as how does the financial arctic part non-indian i mean ten days lol darling home home alone host and mom denials mom arm on the issue non long on on and martin he died online part along on loan monday evening lol tennessee tennis lol morrow tempting it's too easy dweller great length on the descriptive qualities bach's music despite the fact that they are much evidence ever since the great box revivals of the late nineteenth century an incredible amount of effort and misplaced scholarship has been extremely dramatic connotations of almost every instrumental in boca motif which occurs more than once in his work in fact in the most active years of fox research at the beginning of our century cantata xams passion music were subject to much the same sort of microscopic analysis as was the like most of technique of faulkner's ring cycle fortunately we've now learned i think to except pictorial aspect approx writing with its proper context it was a important part of his musical thinking and one thing which many of the characteristic motives of is instrumental style adopted into his vocal lighting and and vice versa but there is a very real danger to be phased in overstating it differences what applies the dramatic into the opening phrase of the cantata number before you can say that the retention of that dominant just what exactly is called depicts the tension and discord struggle for the souls purity but its product resolution portrays the state contention for two weeks spirituals etc this is a possible analysis it would be possible to save what have the malice to say it that the great tension of the opening committee dozens of sacrifice in the nuisance of bothering the struggle wildly comically solution of since the east i don't think block subscribe to that view but it does indicate that it's extremely dangerous to apply what to expect have applied that kind of dramatic pieces of music because the fact remains for all the passion of his own for all the conviction of his own theological position was its first musical achievement be concerned first and last an architect the constructor of sound and what makes him so est will be valuable to us is that he was beyond a doubt greatest architect of sound who ever lived the box music provides us with the grand summation of all techniques but the great masters of north european music since in the early renaissance at the very end of a long line of german ducts flemish masters who fright create or modify caliente yet of what surely at one time seemed b shrunken limits of major mine internet again early seventeenth century box harmonics thinking belongs to that concept of from the university which all of the anxious transition of musical history have been involved this entry into the forest for in which these feeding system of finality first food victorious over the complex relations of mogul certainly all of the electric melodic techniques that sparked used reception those which had been developed and in some cases perfected by the great masters of the lichtenstein's effect box many advice as his vast resources of you've been kemon we're simply techniques that required the widest possible harmonic references techniques which necessarily find the stringent economy eighteenth-century to melody a challenging but infuriating discipline one of the problems which gives box work it's extraordinary poignancy is the fact that we could practically see him struggling to testing the limits of his incredible linear imagination in order to stay turned even to save the disciplining harmonic progressions tune-up dropped as a german stands between the michael tendencies early though music that of the north of the dot shinde from its tradition in which the talked a couple styles the melodic development support where essentially based upon vocal correct the site's and that is a sense of italy in which the florida diversions instrumental style where allowed to create their own sources of technique brock somehow managed to coordinate bo approaches to the art of music we find him is earlier years writing fumes that except x like this one means that this was the quake impossible to attempt the same here's a few which papo they're yours deaths if you can see that not only the demonic stylist infinitely more complex but also that it would be possible to sing this music concededly knew you invoke effect all of the tendency six where rapidly crystallizing in the musical are box time where the exact baptism accepted by that example and by this one morris exam by no means all the box writing business intends to risk part of this is the act yudofsky instrumental principles of the italian concerto style he brings to them a certain stability he certain shermanesque they come in his hands is vital and as purposeful is that happiest of the offshoots of the reformation v german car out if that sounds just vaguely familiar that uh... is not media correla played in fact reduced weeks harmonic basis is opening up the first theme of the fifth ruttenberg concerto it's robert remarkable i think that even here in this most sophisticated most attended the forms box david concerto with finding the structural killers of his writing that same purity in clarity of thinking which marks the great sources german carell writing by the way this abn don't get it on which i could trade that few is in case you're wondering uh... droppings active general and not exactly a hot critics and a lot of canada thinks it's articulate and and that was about the cause of tumors that same thing by the way up the clearly i think the great differences in how money thinking that it's just between park and is more progressive fifteen blunders costly back-and-forth across the he center axis of d major which is to keep the work and it's time to get a conclusion coming on something else happens to the late star plan the box sons would concoct bearded opting for them the satisfaction of musical structure wasn't getting through to begin in termination in achieving it wasn't for now if you could simply the joyous essences b
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