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To: TBP
This won't help you, but one of the ways Bach learned how to write music was by getting the scores of Vivaldi concerti, then transcribing them for organ note by note so he could see how Vivaldi put the music together, then play it on the organ so he could hear how it sounded.

When I taught on campus many moons ago, I had a CD of some Bach transcriptions of Vivaldi, and sometimes when I felt particularly impish I would drive into the campus parking lot, windows down like the students, blasting music like the students, but it being organ transcriptions of Vivaldi, unlike the students.

13 posted on 05/01/2024 10:35:48 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin
Sometimes when I felt particularly impish I would drive into the campus parking lot, windows down like the students, blasting music like the students, but it being organ transcriptions of Vivaldi.

You radical you. Did you part your hair differently and undo the top shirt button, too? Just wait until the head of your department hears of this scandalous behavior!

Seriously though, if you're still teaching what with this lunacy going on please be safe.

32 posted on 05/01/2024 12:49:43 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (We can never stop failing for the minute we do, we fail.)
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