{"id":2147,"date":"2013-12-22T19:13:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T00:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2013-12-22T19:13:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T00:13:23","slug":"scrolling-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=2147","title":{"rendered":"scrolling scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading further in Gardiner&#8217;s <b>Bach<\/b>, I&#8217;ve arrived at his treatment of Bach&#8217;s first cantatas, written when he was in his early 20s. <i>Christ lag in Todesbanden<\/i> was, Gardiner thinks, &#8220;most likely composed for his probationary audition for the position of organist at Muhlhausen&#8221; (pg 131). The music itself is very familiar to me, via lots of iterations of Bach&#8217;s cantatas on vinyl when we lived in Nova Scotia and there was always music in the house, but I&#8217;ve never had occasion to make any study of this or any other cantata. I&#8217;m pleased to discover that YouTube has an animated version that allows me to follow along with the text:<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/43drQ_KRtyg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>Truth to tell, I can&#8217;t really grasp the harmonic ideas with both hands, but Gardiner&#8217;s description of the parts of the piece makes much more sense to me via the score than through ears alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading further in Gardiner&#8217;s Bach, I&#8217;ve arrived at his treatment of Bach&#8217;s first cantatas, written when he was in his early 20s. Christ lag in Todesbanden was, Gardiner thinks, &#8220;most likely composed for his probationary audition for the position of organist at Muhlhausen&#8221; (pg 131). The music itself is very familiar to me, via lots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}