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(DIR) Post #9npadLMAmjFRvHCcVM by DuckRex@cryptids.online
2019-10-11T21:03:09Z
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So JS Bach wrote exactly one Mass. He was Lutheran and it’s two hours long, so he wrote literally just to write it; it’s obvious he had no intention of it being performed. He wouldn’t even have written it for posterity or whatever because he wasn’t even that famous in his day.
(DIR) Post #9npadN84C99XQ6cNnM by DuckRex@cryptids.online
2019-10-11T21:04:34Z
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The scope is insane. For instance, there’s three different Kyrie movements (most masses just have one). I’ve never heard the whole thing because it takes so damn long. For reference, the longest symphony in the standard repertoire is Mahler’s 3rd Symphony, which runs maybe an hour and 45 minutes.
(DIR) Post #9npadPAyaIfVlhzjbk by DuckRex@cryptids.online
2019-10-11T21:07:33Z
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Please understand that Bach was never writing just to write. He was the music director at a church and was writing fresh music basically every week. So the fact that he did this for absolutely no reason (and towards the end of his life no less) for what basically amounts to just this really fuckin long passion project, is both confusing and amazing.
(DIR) Post #9npadQkSjqeGe3baYi by DuckRex@cryptids.online
2019-10-11T21:10:17Z
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it’s also worth noting that the only reason we mark the end of the baroque era at 1750 is because Bach died and left what is the platinum standard of baroque music behind. Everyone else had already moved on to writing in the classical and he was just like “fuck that homophonic shit, here’s two fucking hours of contrapuntal polyphony.”
(DIR) Post #9npadSQKVfjTqCCXSK by DuckRex@cryptids.online
2019-10-11T21:34:59Z
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@DuckRex Bach: