How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. - Sophocles
2006, April 30
Bach's Organ Mass
Taking off on a very large project, exploring the twenty-one chorales of the Third Part of the Keyboard Practice, or Dritter Theil der Clavier Übung, BWV 669-BWV 689.
Bach wrote a set of twenty-one organ chorale settings for the German Organ Mass, the Lutheran church service for which he wrote so much music. Some were large and some were small and Bach published them in his Third Part of the Keyboard Practice.
I hope to listen to recordings and to make midi files of at least the smaller pieces, learning about them as I go. I intend to post as I go along on this complex investigation.
Exploration - practical investigation and analysis which leads to knowledge, skills and understanding. Exploration may arise from the needs of a given situation, but may also be stimulated by curiosity, extending personal vocabulary or style, and may result in unexpected, unusual or innovative outcomes. (Definition from the wikipedia)
Some links:
Order of the Lutheran Mass in Leipzig
