On abstract and ‘absolute’ music, Eduard Hanslick’s auditory kaleidoscope, Heinrich Schenker’s primal counterpoint, and Bach’s fugues.
With a written appendix: ‘Art playing with itself’: the anti-contrapuntal prejudice
00:00 Intro
00:36 Two dogmas
05:06 Music without additives
06:28 The auditory kaleidoscope
08:57 ‘Art playing with itself’
13:22 Complementarity: harmony and counterpoint
17:48 Die Kunst der Fuge
24:22 Metacounterpoint
27:26 Schenker’s epiphany
34:29 Bach: Prelude and fugue in F major BWV 880
Music fragments:
04:02 J.S. Bach, Sinfonia (Three-part Invention) Nr. 1 BWV 787
13:48 Melody and harmonisations
16.33 J.S. Bach, Präludium F dur BWV 880, Das wohltemperierte Klavier II nr. 11
20:31 J.S. Bach, Contrapunctus I, Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080
25:55 H. Schenker, Zweistimmige Invention op. 5 nr. 1
34:58 J.S. Bach, Präludium und Fuge F dur BWV 880, Das wohltemperierte Klavier II nr. 11
Lodewijk Muns, piano
References: see ‘Art playing with itself‘.
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