Fugue

The next week, I was so eager to learn something new. The psychiatrist announced that it was the military week. This implies that he would spend long hours interacting with them because they were new clients. He needed to get good and solid information about every one of them. Most of the clients who worked in the military or who fought in the military, suffered from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD). The professor in the abnormal psychology textbook, noted that the diagnostic criteria for…

composer but was known for his skill on the organ and his teaching. That has certainly changed over the centuries as Bach is now mostly known for his compositions. Some of Bach’s most famous works include The Brandenburg Concertos, The 48 Preludes and fugues "Well Tempered Klavier", The Goldberg Variations, The Concerto for Two Violins, The B minor, Mass, The St Matthew Passion, and The 6 solo cello…

Lukas Foss has been referred to as the “eternal Wunderkind” and an “Enfant Terrible.” Stravinsky had once told him, “Lukas, soyez rosse. (Lukas, be fierce.)” His conducting has always hinted styles of the masters and he performed “new music with the same awe, respect, and distance we usually accord to the classics.” Foss’ honed skills as a pianist proved fruitful and allowed him to become the staff pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra at age twenty-two. Foss is equally accomplished as a…

John Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Without Bach there would be no history of music as we know it. There would be no Mozart, No Beethoven, there would be no romantic fera as we know it. Every period of music has been informed to some except by the example of Bach. Bach died in 1750 he was more than an organist, more of a keyboard player than as composer. Yet till today the resident power of his work and the best achievements in history music. Bach was the youngest of 8 children in 1685 Eisencich,…

March 21, 1685 in Eisenach, Germany, one of the world’s most famous composer, Johann Sebastian Bach was born. Bach was the youngest of the family.His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a town musician and was the husband of Elizabeth Lämmerhirt Bach. The Bach family were musicians going back seven generations. They also were also very devoutly Lutheran. Bach from a young age was taught violin lessons by his father. He was also part of church choir because he had a beautiful voice. Bach attended…

someone close, obtaining hereditary health issues, abuse, rape, and even neglect. All of these factors may or will lead to psychological disorders. Something such as rape or abuse may cause, anxiety, panic attacks, PTSD, or even dissociative amnesia or fugue. Hereditary health issues such as obesity, which is common in SES or due to lack of a healthy diet, may lead to someone to be anorexia or bulimic to try and loose the weight. There are many factors that lead to psychological disorders,…

Similar to The Rorschach Test – a famed psychological inkblot test that means different things to different people – Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts can be interpreted in a number of unique ways. It tells a purposely ambiguous, experimental, and daring story that forces readers to question their preconceived notions between knowledge, love, identity, and insanity. The Raw Shark Texts is a flawless example of how emotional trauma triggers psychosis, as well as how losing a loved one disturbs a…

We have a fugato passage from bar138-145 in F major. The first violins and second violins in cannon, an octave apart (See figure 5). Figure 5. Mozart began to learn counterpoint with his father Leopold and he wrote fugue since nine years old (Einstein, 1961). He also studied it with Johann Christian Bach in London and Padre Martini in Bologna. (Einstein,1961). J.C.Bach used the imitative texture extensively on his compositions and here is an example from his Moreover…

for logical reasoning, music speaks a universal language, and painting is the visualization of all the connections. In Bach’s six-part fugue (or in Bach’s words, “ricercar”, an Italian word means “to seek”) dedicated to King Frederick, there is a “rhythmically irregular and highly chromatic” theme in great complication (7). To imagine the concept of a six-part fugue, “[o]ne could probably liken the task … to the playing of six simultaneous blindfold games of chess, and winning them all” (7). In…

performers played were: two violins, viola, and a cello. However, each piece consisted of four movements- fast, slow, minuet or scherzo, and fast- because each string quartet usually consists of four. The first composition performed was Adagio and Fugue…