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-Embraced all the major styles, forms, and genres of his time.
-Blended them in new ways and developed them further.
Result: music of unprecedented richness.
Kapellmeister,music director, and organist:
Fugue:
-Highly imitative counterpoint.
-Contains entries and episodes in varying textures.
-Contrapuntal devices: sequence, fragmentation, augmentation, diminution, etc.
-BWV: “The Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis” (Bach Works Catalogue) is the title of the numbering system used in identifying compositions by J.S. Bach.
-They are numbered according to theme.
-Left school in 1702 to play organ in Sangerhausen under the Duke of Saxony-Weissenfels.
-1703 appointed organist of Neue Kirche. Bach was obsessed with the organ there.
-1707 organist of the Blasiusskirche in Muhlhausen.
-Orchestral member and organist in Weimar 1708-1717.
-Kapellmeister in Cöthen 1717-1720.
-In charge of music at four churches in Leipzig from 1723-1750.
-Kapellmeister in Dresden in 1736.
During Bach's time in Weirmar (1708-1717), he made transcriptions of Vivaldi’s collection of concertos for organ.
-Counterpoint style
-Northern German and French influences
-Harmonic planning and thematic development.
-Born March 23, 1685 in Thuringia, which is a state in present-day Germany.
-Youngest of eight siblings.
-Attended St. Michael’s church (Latin School) in 1700, which had an impressive music tradition and a famous music library.
Contemporary:Jazz Quintet
Original:
Organ
-Tonal: adheres to totality.
-Imitative: subject, answer, countersubject.
-Ornamental: scalar, arpeggios, upper/lower mordents, anticipation notes.
-Harmonic: four-voice texture, cadence points.
-Solo: virtuosic.