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December 28, 2011 66 notes

bachdidwhat:

Parallel octaves in the Christmas Oratorio. Bach - just subversive, or secretly the antichrist? Happy holidays!

BWV 248, XIX. Schlafe, mein Liebster, genieße der Ruh’

Ummmm….

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1. agummybearwithalisp reblogged this from bachdidwhat
2. forever-lost-in-love reblogged this from musicalmelody and added:

   oooooooohhhhh bad!!!!!!

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5. peacelovemusic09 reblogged this from spaceballs-the-url and added:

   Besides, Bach did whatever the hell he wanted. Because he was Bach.

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7. soul-is-over reblogged this from tmad40blue and added:

   but aren’t parallel fifths worse than parallel octaves in 2 voice counterpoint? at least that’s what our prof says i...

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11. tmad40blue reblogged this from soul-is-over and added:

    ^ Hence why they said PARALLEL OCTAVES. lrn2read

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14. soul-is-over reblogged this from the-life-quixotic and added:

    they ain’t no parallel fifths

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16. seohayoung reblogged this from musicalmelody and added:

    Damn…Bach you are such a badass

17. portraitofasmile reblogged this from opera4breakfast and added:

    784. I have secretly thought for years that JSB is actually a time-traveling music-writing robot. the man was the man!...

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30. notasgothastheysayweare reblogged this from saccharinenostalgia and added:

    AHAHAHAHAAH music theory problems. Bach could never be the antichrist.

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    I vote we send this blog to Dr. Klumpenhouwer.

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41. spaceballs-the-url reblogged this from j0din and added:

    Seriously… don’t even think that you can best Bach on this stuff =P

42. j0din reblogged this from musicalmelody and added:

    They’re not parallel octaves if there are rests there..

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    *gasp* They’re everywhere! O_O Bach, what were you on?

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