On Apr 17, 7:39 pm, "Ioannis" <morph...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Bill (Unique as my name)" <billyco...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Apr 16, 9:26 pm, "Thomas Wood" <woodtj1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > I suppose the question was silly. I often hear how so-and-so is/was
> > ahead of his/her time. I just wondered how does somebody make that
> > determination about music.
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> There's a lot of mathematical information codified inside JSB's music.
What's
> strange is not the information itself, rather the fact that he was not a
> mathematician. Even if he was, some of this info seems to have been
ahead of
> him.
>
> Here's one example with
combinatorics:http://ioannis.virtualcomposer2000.com/music/analysis.html
>
> For some more leanient examples, Google "Bach Gematria".
>
> And let's not forget: We are talking about all that, *in addition* to
the fact
> that his music is simply beautiful. For me, all that points towards
"ahead of
> his time".
> --
> I.N. Galidakis ---http://ioannis.virtualcomposer2000.com/
There is some math involved in contrapuntal technique, especially in
the construction of canons. To study this , see the 'Technique of
Canon' by Hugo Norden. Counterpoint synthesizes fat chords into
points. The analogy is that counterpoint is very digital and melody
over strummed chords is stupefyingly analogue. Bach's IQ was well
over 300 and well ahead of our own time.
Can anyone out there compose a fugue in Bach's own musical language?
If not, get your act together.
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