 Then after some excellent observations upon the organ, he says, " Bach, even in his secular compositions, disdained everything common; but in his compositions for the organ, he kept himself far more distant from it; so that here he does not appear like...  The Musical World - Pàgina 1231865Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 pàgines
...after some excellent observations upon the organ, he says, " Bach, even in his secular compositions, disdained everything common; but in his compositions...disembodied spirit, who soars above everything mortal." It does indeed seem, from all that is said of Bach on this score, that, as the organ was his proper... | |
 | Joseph Warren - 1844 - 112 pàgines
...more distant from it, so that here he does not appear like a man, but as a true disembodied spirit. " The means which he employed to attain such a sacred...the use of the obbligato pedal, and in his manner of using the stops. That the church modes, on account of their difference from our twelve major and... | |
 | Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1846 - 198 pàgines
...observations upon the organ, he says, " Bach, even in his secular compositions, disdained every thing common ; but in his compositions for the organ, he...disembodied spirit, who soars above everything mortal." It does indeed seem, from all that is said of Bach on this score, that, as the organ was his proper... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1846 - 380 pàgines
...observations upon the organ, he says, " Bach, even in his secular compositions, disdained every thing common ; but in his compositions for the organ, he...disembodied spirit, who soars above everything mortal." It does indeed seem, from all that is said of Bach on this score, that, as the organ was his proper... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 364 pàgines
...upon the organ, he says, "Bach, even in his secular compositions, disdained every thing com' mon ; but in his compositions for the organ, he kept himself...disembodied spirit, who soars above everything mortal." It does indeed seem, from all that is said of Bach on this score, that, as the organ was his proper... | |
 | John Sullivan Dwight - 1856 - 428 pàgines
...every respect, be banished from the organ. And who was ever more strict, in this point, than Bach У Even in his secular compositions he disdained everything...they are called, in his divided harmony, in the use ot the obligat o pedal, and in his manner of using the stops. That the church modes, on account of... | |
 | George B. Stauffer, Ernest May - 2000 - 324 pàgines
...kept himself infinitely more distant from it, so that here, it seems to me, he does not appear lihe a man, but as a true disembodied spirit, who soars above everything mortal. —Johann Nicolaus Forkel (1802) CHRlSTOPH WOLFF Johann Adam Reinken and Johann Sebastian Bach On the... | |
 | Hans T David, Hans Theodore David, Mendel, Christoph Wolff - 1999 - 612 pàgines
...compositions for the organ he kept himself infinitely more distant from it; so that here, it seems to me, he does not appear like a man, but as a true disembodied...of the old church modes, as they are called, in his open harmony, in the use of the obbligato pedal, and in his manner of using the stops. That the church... | |
 | David Yearsley - 2002 - 284 pàgines
...[Bach] kept himself infinitely more distant from [everything common]; so that here, it seems to me, he does not appear like a man, but as a true disembodied spirit, who soars above everything mortal."57 The residue of this conception of Bach music persists in the modern musicological literature:... | |
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