MY EXPLANATION OF THE MUSIC OF J. S. BACH

I’m going to try to explain why Bach’s music compositions are so dear to me especially when plaid with a modern grand piano by G. Gould.

All the music that J. S. Bach wrote was “didactical” music he wrote for his pupils whom he had while working for the court of Saxonia in the 17th century, all of his music has titles that explain the objective of the teaching:

- Temperaments which is about the “tone” of an instrument given through plain tuning

- Counterpoint that is the construction of a full melody from beginning to end

- Fugue can be a much longer piece of music with the distinctive characteristic of the tempo being faster than the rest of the composition



In example it’s possible to recognize a counterpoint in few bars of written music because its form is about playing a “do” and after its opposite that can be both the “sol” or the “do#” or the “dob ” while a fugue can only be seen if the full composition can be looked at from its beginning to its end, because it’s just like what I explained for the counterpoint but it’s long pieces of music that become one the opposite of another, as for what temperaments means it’s more about the instrument itself than written music, a temperament is given by the technician who tunes the piano or organ or harpsichord in order to make all the notes sound “plain” to each other, as you see I wrote plain in brackets because the plain sound is a sound in tune with human capacity of distinguishing tone waves when they are heard by the human ear, someone who is deaf on one ear cannot be a tuner for any kind of instrument because one ear only cannot give the depth and brilliance of any note on any instrument, so it takes someone with good ear and years of studies and practice to become a good tuner of any instrument.

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