On Thursday 10 August 2006 12:21, LGS-Europe wrote: > > Thank you very much for telling the history of your monumental FCdM > > edition! > > In my music analysis lessons we had to anayse many different kinds of > music, but our teacher was most fond of Bach. He was one of the men that > wrote _the_ book on Bach and numerology, concluding that you can read > Bach's date of death in his works. Every lesson would be concluded with a > quick analysis of a Bach fugue, in which he would subtly add up entrances > of the theme, or the total number of notes, always coming up with the right > numbers to prove whatever it was he wanted to prove to us that day. Anyway, > anything 'less' than Bach would be frowned upon as seriously inferior, and > it's only merit would be that we would see the glorious perfection of > Bach's music even better. One day I presented him with an analysis of a > fantasia by Francesco, with the music from Arthur Ness' edition, of course. > The man started playing it at the piano and was actually impressed with the > quality of the music!
But do the fantasias have some hidden numerology ...... ? What is __the__ book on bach's numerology? There are several ones, the classic 'goedel, escher, bach' and another by tutlow/tatlow(?) come to mind. I would love to hear your analysis of Madonna. taco > > To please him even more I inserted in my final presentation of my work an > analysis of Madonna's 'True Blue'. But that's another story. ;-) > > David - agreeing with my teacher about Bach btw. Obviously, he's God. > > > > > **************************** > David van Ooijen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.davidvanooijen.nl > **************************** > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
