Bach
Some Wednesday Musical Links-Where Is Your Voice?
A really good rock voice, stripped of instrumentation, pulled out of the mix:
A very good female rock voice, with instrumentation, and two voices harmonizing during the chorus.
Two very good voices, and a pretty good voice, with instrumentation, and sometimes three voices harmonizing.
Here are six good voices, harmonizing throughout:
A Whole Chorus:
Bach-Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor
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Different colors represent different voices, the length of each bar/spaces between bars represent the duration of notes in time.
Is this kind of visualization helpful for players? for you as a listener?
Addition: Music Animation Machine webpage here.
Repost-Some Music: Beatbox Sax & Bach’s Chaconne In D Minor
A lot of breathing, technique, and multiphonics going on here. That can’t be easy. Smooth funk?
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From what I’m told, it’s really tough to get the fingering, and the feel, and the different voices of a Bach piece working together, but Ireland’s John Feeley does a really fine job:
You Never Go Full ‘Adult Contemporary’-Some Links
I’ve wondered why Mike Oldfield (Tubular Bells, English guitarist and smart composer, New-Agey prog rock but deep…out there) seemed so popular in Spain.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s an appeal to a sense of the deeply tragic going on, well-designed but emotionally intense songs; compositions with some classical influence and historical context, but still functioning as popular/bar songs.
He manages to work with excellent singers too.
Going For Baroque (get it?):
I imagine a bunch of little kids slowly waking-up in a loft, daylight breaking through shutters, the cobwebs of sleep still filling the room.
A simple wonder at the architecture of things: