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Q: What is the BWV number for this?
A: BWV 565
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Q: Why does this piece of music remind me of horror movies?
A: Because it was used in the 1962 version of The Phantom of the Opera. Before that, it did not have that connotation. When Walt Disney and Leopold Stokowski used it in the 1940 film Fantasia, they considered it to be a purely abstract piece --- "absolute music" --- which brought to mind expressionistic forms and lines.
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January 8th, 2009 at 14:21:01 No it's not.. in German and some other northern European countries B is called H and english B flat is called B
January 8th, 2009 at 14:44:00 The "H" note in music is sort of a nickname for a Double-flatted B (or the note A).
January 8th, 2009 at 15:06:59 SKRIBLSKULL, Although this peice has been now acociated as being "scary" or with old "horror" films. This peice was intended to be quite the opposite, Bach wrote all his music for God and the Church. Its useually only the first few messures people think of when they hear this peice played.
January 8th, 2009 at 15:29:58 try waking up to this in the morning lol I dont know I like organ music for it's creepiness but its hard for me to get into outside of that. I wonder if it was meant to be creepy or did modern media destroy some once beautiful HMM I dont know lol. Bach is still the shizz tho hehe
January 8th, 2009 at 15:52:57 this always reminds me of DRACULA HAHAHA LOVE IT!!!!
January 8th, 2009 at 16:15:56 yum. source stuff. i love this. yay bach!
January 8th, 2009 at 16:38:55 work of satan
January 8th, 2009 at 17:01:54 i learn this in school at music class andib love it
January 8th, 2009 at 17:24:53 Brilliant...gives me piece at mind...finally..
January 8th, 2009 at 17:47:52 >Composers must have felt something alluring about patterns since [they] ... incorporated it into their work so it shouldn't be discarded as unimportant or a gimmick. I wasn't saying that the use of patterns is a gimmick, but that the use of patterns that are more easily recognized by means other than listening are a gimmick. If da Vinci told you that if you viewed the Mona Lisa under a microscope you'd see 1,000,000 copies of the Lord's Prayer in microscope print ... that would be a gimmick.
January 8th, 2009 at 18:10:51 >"Why do people enjoy patterns?" One possible answer goes like this: pleasure motivates an organism to do the things that are pleasurable; organisms that experience pleasure when they recognize patterns will develop their pattern-recognition skills; pattern-recognition skills confer a survival advantage; etc.
January 8th, 2009 at 18:33:50 niiice
January 8th, 2009 at 18:56:49 Composers must have felt something alluring about patterns since some (possibly many, I don't know) consciously incorporated it into their work so it shouldn't be discarded as unimportant or a gimmick. I would love to keep the arts mysterious but I can't help but break it down. Completely breaking down and understanding art, I think, is not possible. But to think in-depth about art is to try to break it down and understand its components.
January 8th, 2009 at 19:19:48 I think patterns is an integral part of music (and maybe everything) and does shed some light into the nature of music (possibly everything else). Why do people enjoy music? Or Nature? What makes quality music? I'm not answering these questions but there is a mysterious pattern within both music and nature. I want to elongate the question to include "Why do people enjoy patterns?" because answering this would shed light onto the other questions.
January 8th, 2009 at 19:42:47 For "B," "A," "C," H," of course I wouldn't call it alphabetical, since the notes could have been named anything else. (Also, there is no "H" note.) I take back what I said about music being "mathematical," but not the AESTHETIC OF PATTERNS.
January 8th, 2009 at 20:05:46 I just think about someone called Dracula. 8P And Monty Python's the Meaning of Life.
January 8th, 2009 at 20:28:45 I really like 6:18
January 8th, 2009 at 20:51:44 >patterns Yes, music is made of patterns ... but so is everything else ... so it's not a useful distinction. >composer ... obsessed ... golden ratio ... incorporated it in... his pieces That's true, but the question is: does that make the piece mathematical? Bach wrote pieces based on the notes "B", "A", "C", "H" ... does that make music alphabetical? This kind of thing has always struck me as being a gimmick, and not something that shed meaningful light on the nature of music itself.
January 8th, 2009 at 21:14:43 When I learned piano, too, I noticed that many songs have patterns and variations on the same pattern. Scales themselves are patterns.
January 8th, 2009 at 21:37:42 Music seems so mathematical. Looking at these visuals, I notice that so much of the song is made into patterns. I suppose the aesthetic of patterns is what is loved. I remember another composer who was obsessed with the golden ratio and incorporated it into many of his pieces. Forgot the composer though but that's another example for the books!
January 8th, 2009 at 22:00:41 i always get chills all over my body when i hear those 2 parts
January 8th, 2009 at 22:23:40 1:19 and 2:51 is truly amazing passages
January 8th, 2009 at 22:46:39 excellent music imo
January 8th, 2009 at 23:09:38 oops this was supposed to be a reply to xovux.
January 9th, 2009 at 23:32:37 I'm 18 too and I am teaching myself the Toccata part on the keyboard. The Toccata is actually not very difficult as long as you can read music decently. In addition it has very little pedal notes, so you can play most of it on a keyboard, and a lot of the left and right hand parts are identical, so you can probably learn it if you try. I don't know about the Fugue though, now THAT looks difficult.