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I'm going through a little Mozart phase, I guess. It's always been a little tough for me to appreciate his music. I just got a bunch of Murray Perahia recordings from the university library. About 6 CDs of piano concertos. I think I'm coming around...

Cool, I don't think I've heard any of the Organ Concertos...I'll have to check 'em out now. Re: OP / C'mon guys! It's like picking a favorite child!

You mean Toccata & Fugue in D Minor? (Dracula's theme song) Or Organ Concerto No. 5 in d Minor, BWV 596?

Copy and paste my friend...copy and paste.

Silpharmonic?

I don't know. Christopher Nolan (who also did Memento) is directing the new Batman movie. The cast seems pretty strong: Michael Caine (Alfred), Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, and Gary Oldman. It'll definitely be different than all of the other Batman movies (but probably not like Van Helsing...

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Cal, you're obviously too uneducated to have a real debate about this. I'm done. Later.

Well, prove to me that you know something about counterpoint or harmony. Or drop it. There's not a whole heck of a lot on the Internet...so you won't be able to fake your way through this one. You're not going to be able to distract me with pictures of Tony Bennett...

I haven't read either book. I was pointing out your own misinformation in the OP. I don't need to read every book written on Bach to figure out that you don't know what you're talking about. If you want to post a few quotes from your book to prove that Bach invented Baroque AND Classical...

You're merely attacking me on a personal level because I'm not blindly agreeing with everything you say. I coudn't possibly understand Christianity, right? Why is that? Because I can't bring myself to believe that Bach invented Classical music and the airplane and all your other revisionist...

My point is that J. S. Bach and Martin Luther (himself!) were not as intolerant and ridiculously selective as you seem to be. Are you trying to "outdo" the original Reformist? Historically: Bach is the borrower. Church Polyphony is the original. So you're not being accurate with your words here.

I think Cal wants to bring our attention to a division between the old (Catholic) Church Polyphony and some kind of Reformation-based Baroque style. He wants to place J. S. Bach on this line even though he was one of the last composers of the Baroque period. The problem is...Martin Luther...

That's a very good question. Yes, in a sense, it is all pretty pointless. You have to answer that for yourself. I'm all too aware of the inherent nihilism in art in general. Art can't possibly mean that much to the American-pragmatist mind. Really, all good art is useless! That's one of the...

Music is its own language...the more you study counterpoint, harmony, and orchestration, the more you'll realize this. We've all been made lazy with programmatic art like song cycles and opera...despite how great a lot of it is. You can't, for example, write a four-bar canon in the Dorian mode...