Re: Is Bach's music ahead of OUR time?

In article <1179101519.484520.271120@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
sagespath <sagespath@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>  If Fux is so dry, why did Bach produce a richly annotated version of
>  it in 1736?  This has not yet been translated from the German.  Bach
>  considered all of his works as models in composition for his
>  students. 

 As witness his Klavierübung, best translated as "Keyboard Praxis".
 These are not mere "exercises for Keyboard Playing", in the style of
 Czerny's "101". They are examples of the "best practice" in *Keyboard
 Writing.*

 The Orgelbüchlein is another case in point. If you can play all
 the 46 Little Pieces in the Little Organ Book, you can play Organ!

 Ben

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