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Toccata and Fugue in D minor
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January 7th, 2009 at 17:00:47 Brilliant...gives me piece at mind...finally..
January 7th, 2009 at 17:23:46 >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 7th, 2009 at 17:46:45 >"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 7th, 2009 at 18:09:44 niiice
January 7th, 2009 at 18:32:43 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 7th, 2009 at 18:55:42 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 7th, 2009 at 19:18:41 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 7th, 2009 at 19:41:40 I just think about someone called Dracula. 8P And Monty Python's the Meaning of Life.
January 7th, 2009 at 20:04:39 I really like 6:18
January 7th, 2009 at 20:27:38 >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 7th, 2009 at 20:50:37 When I learned piano, too, I noticed that many songs have patterns and variations on the same pattern. Scales themselves are patterns.
January 7th, 2009 at 21:13:36 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 7th, 2009 at 21:36:35 i always get chills all over my body when i hear those 2 parts
January 7th, 2009 at 21:59:34 1:19 and 2:51 is truly amazing passages
January 7th, 2009 at 22:22:33 excellent music imo
January 7th, 2009 at 22:45:32 oops this was supposed to be a reply to xovux.
January 7th, 2009 at 23:08:31 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.
January 7th, 2009 at 23:31:30 Extreme Guitar Hero.
January 8th, 2009 at 23:54:29 LOl! WOW x10,000! I hardly listen to any classical stuff but that was absolutely amazing. I was surfing the net trying to find a piece of music which I later found out to be Toccata by SKY.(Thats cool too) Just ONE person played that???? WOW again!!!!
January 8th, 2009 at 00:17:28 "Modern" music is music to but has no feeling in it. This piece has feeling in it, alot if you ask me :)
January 8th, 2009 at 00:40:27 wow...
January 8th, 2009 at 01:03:26 >Bach has always been mathematical about his music A lot of people say that, but most of them are mistaken. If you study Bach, and you study mathematics, and you study other Baroque-era composers, you will find that there's very little about Bach that isn't true of the other composers of that period.
January 8th, 2009 at 01:26:25 Bach has always been mathematical about his music, thats what i love about his music =3
January 8th, 2009 at 01:49:24 man i wonder how much time did the performer take to complete this piece, how many years.... I would like to learn this piece be4 i die (Im 18) lol but this piece looks so hard, but its well worth the effort because THIS is music, not these music kids listen nowadays, including me lol. Bach is the best x)
January 8th, 2009 at 02:12:23 GENIUS!!!