Does Bach's BWV 261 modulate?
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Yes...\n\nSome parts are in D major, and some parts are in B minor.\n\nThe last chord is B major, a relatively foreign key from D major.
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"World's Longest Concert Adds Two Notes\n\n07/05/2004 10:58 AM, AP\nMatt Surman\n\nIn an abandoned church in the German town of Halberstadt, the world's longest concert was coming two notes closer to its end Monday: Three years down, 636 to go.\n\nThe addition of an E and E-sharp complement the G-sharp, B and G-sharp that have been playing since February 2003 in composer John Cage's "Organ2/ASLSP" — or "Organ squared/As slow as possible."\n\nThe five notes are the initial sounds played on a specially built organ — one in which keys are held down by weights, and new organ pipes will be added as needed as the piece is stretched out to last generations.\n\nThe concert is more than just an avant-garde riff on Cage's already avant-garde oeuvre, which includes a piece consisting of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence and one for a piano rejiggered with screws and wood stuck between the strings.\n\n"It has a philosophical background: in the hectic times in which we live, to find calm through this slowness," said Georg Bandarau, a businessman who helps run the private foundation behind the concert. "In 639 years, maybe they will only have peace."\n\nThe concert began Sept. 5, 2001 — the day Cage would have turned 89. The composition, originally written to last 20 minutes, starts with a silence, and the only sound for a first 1 1/2 years was air. The first notes were played in February 2003.\n\nAfter debates in Germany about what exactly "as slow as possible" could mean — anywhere from a day to stretching on infinitely — the group of German music experts and organ builder behind the project chose the concert's 639-year running time to commemorate to the creation of the city's historic Blockwerk organ in 1361.\n\nHalberstadt's disused Burchardi church, once a monastery complex and now an appropriately simple and unadorned building, was chosen as a concert hall.\n\nAbout 10,000 tourists visited the city, 60 miles southeast of Hanover, between April and September of last year to hear the first three notes, Bandarau said.\n\nCage was born in Los Angeles in 1912, and like his teacher, Arnold Schoenberg, was influential both as a musician and a thinker. "Organ2/ASLSP" was composed in 1985 for piano, but two years later was rearranged for organ. Cage died in 1992.\n\nThe next change arrives in March 2006. The music then will become even simpler: Two notes are being taken away, Bandarau said.\n\nThe foundation is now seeking sponsors to fund the organ's estimated $246,000 cost.\n\n"We need to secure the future," Bandarau said."
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Johann Sebastian Bach composed literally thousands of works, many of which were not put down on paper. They were improvised on the fly. \n\nSome of his most famous works are:\n\nBrandenburg Concerti\nMass in D minor\nSt. Matthew Passion\n\nI guess I have to vote for the Brandenburg Conerti.
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harmonizing / a harmony
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No, but I have played it a bit in my younger days.  I don't recall anyone dancing to it.  Of course, I don't recall anything except what I was doing, because that piece takes a bit of concentration for someone of my limited abilities.  I was taken to task for playing it a little too brilliantly and fast once, by another musician in the audience after the performance.\n\nI made out to it standing up, when it was playing on the stereo, does that count as dancing?
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http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/bhs2046/large/index1.html\n\nJust look for Ave Maria in the window in the left. \n\nYou will find it among the \nAusgewählte Lieder". It is the tenth one there.\n\nOr you could just go to page 206.
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As a musician (although a lazy one) I prefer listening to classical or Romantic music on a regular basis. However, if I am cramming for a test I do best with no music on at all, especially if it's technical information. I found that out the hard way in chemistry in high school, where listening to mood music in the background proved a terrible distraction for about four of us in the class. We were directed back into the quiet lab to finish our assignment, and that worked out. I think the chemistry teacher was trying to find out if using mood music would help us concentrate better in class. I guess if you are into composing and analyzing music to any extent, it is better to keep music separate from most studying, as listening to music would not be a passive activity.
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I pulled up that episode on youtube to check it out.  I'm afraid my answer is not "quite interesting" but it might still get me the ten points, which coincidentally is the same anount of points awarded on QI if my answer is correct!  What you were hearing was not in fact a published song but selected preprogramed rhythms available on an electric keyboard.  My Casio keyboard is similarly equiped, all you need to do is select the style and key, then you can overlap them.\n\nHere is the link for the first part of that episode...
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I have listened to that recording and I have some trouble making it out. This question might be unanswerable, I hope for your sake that someone proves me wrong.
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There's also an interesting section on how birdsong matches some very intellectual Music Theory in the book Animals in Translation.  The conclusion seems to be that music might be a precursor to language in brain formation.\n\n(Check around page 278 on Look Inside at the Amazon link below, or search for "birdsong")
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OK, I am way at the bottom here. I will keep it short. \n\nI can understand your frustration, musicimprovedme, but let me take your username as a starting point. Do you believe that the works of Bach are accurate? How do you know they were not changed over the years? Do they not have a signature TGABG (To God Alone Be Glory)? Do they not have his style? Isn't it for reverence to his brilliance that we copied the manuscripts painfully accurate?\n\nFirst, forget who compiled it, its not important. Is it accurate? The Dead Sea Scrolls proved that the entire book of Isaiah can be copied for 2,000 years and still stay 100% accurate.\n\nDo you believe that Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life?" If not, you have no hope. If you do, act on that alone. That is all you need for salvation. You have to ask yourself what you want. Do you want salvation? Do you want to believe the Bible? Do you want hope and truth? You need to be talking to God about this, not a bunch of Yahoos on Yahoo! (I include myself)\n\nDo you want proof of the Bible's authenticity? Read my studies below. Do you want to come in contact with your Creator? Read the first one below. But stop assuming things that are not true on the Bible. That is not the problem, the problem is your lack of personal relationship with your loving Creator.
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That is intranslatable. Neither the words, nor the tone of voice can be reproduced in english. It would be like asking a deaf person about music
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Ahhh, Bach. (from an TV episode of MASH)\n\nI did  a web search on baroque music and find the following website, list several
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Pretty cool. I'm listening to it now and I keep cranking it to 10!
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Longer rifts and musical interludes.  They play the extended version in concert/live.
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Could be. Try a search and find out.  By the way, Private Performance sounds like a blue movie.
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Toccata & Fuga in D minor by J.S. Bach  i guess