tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post1400175244371338691..comments2024-03-23T11:40:13.092-05:00Comments on Musical Assumptions: My Daily BachElaine Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-11457431892520448752012-06-29T01:49:04.616-05:002012-06-29T01:49:04.616-05:00Yes, I feel the same way about Bach. I was not ver...Yes, I feel the same way about Bach. I was not very interested in classical until middle school, when I saw some episode of "Northern Exposure" with an eccentric violinist who was playing the fugue from the 1st sonata alone in a forest. I immediately learned it for the classical guitar to play in front of some class. From there, I went on to play the piano, violin and pipe organ. Bach is the only thing I would play on those instruments, my only reason for spending time to learn them. Sometimes, a few bars will get stuck in my head for days, until I set down the score and play the section in question over and over, examining all the sounds that arise from that particular combination of counterpoint. Once it is has become integrated into my brain to whatever degree it was necessary, then I move onAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-29720596375761319412011-07-04T14:25:50.015-05:002011-07-04T14:25:50.015-05:00Love Bach. A lot. To the point that one of the thi...Love Bach. A lot. To the point that one of the things on my ‘If I won the lottery’ list is to buy the violin parts for all of Bach’s choral music. In the meantime I’ve been looking for compilations of violin obbligato parts from Bach’s choral works & what I have been able to find so far seems quite incomplete. Do you know of any compilations for the violin similar to Baker’s Bach compilation? I know about the Kalmus compilations (violin as well as other obbligato instruments), I also obtained one (all violin) by Barenreiter. There are also a lot of ripieno parts that I’d like to have as well so several years ago I listened to an online clip of every non-recitative track of every Cantata & Mass and compiled a list of the ones I liked. Over the years I have acquired the sheet music for a lot of it via compilations & individual Cantatas, but I still have a ways to go & need to put it together in an organized way.....just thought I’d post here in case you know of any sources that I may not have found yet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com