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25 Dec 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Lorenzo Pistolesi
Where we are Are you having a good Christmas? Let's think about the merits of Musicoin after a long time. 1. Among many music-related coins, Musicoin is the original.2. The logo of Musicoin has an intuitive and beautiful logo.3. There are many c...
1 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
A lively prelude on the hymn tune "Wie nach einem Wasserquelle", cast in the form of a flowing four-part texture with intimations here and there of stricter imitative counterpoint amidst a general tendency toward freer polyphonic dialogue....
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29 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
An ecstatic prelude on the hymn tune "Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag". Flowing sixteenth notes and a pulsing bassline undergird a dramatic rendering of the hymn tune in the uppermost voice. The work concludes with a brief toccata-like pass...
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29 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
A solemn rhapsody on the hymn tune "Das alte Jahr vergangen ist", in which a heavily-ornamented cantus firmus (often strongly suggesting the Phrygian mode) unfolds above a tonally-ambiguous web of chromatic polyphony in the inner voices, w...
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28 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
A jovial prelude on the hymn tune "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan", for manuals alone, in which a falling bassline in sixteenth notes undergirds the ornamented and harmonized cantus firmus. The prelude concludes with a brief virtuosic clima...
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27 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
A prelude, on the hymn tune "Nicht so traurig, nicht so sehr", characterized by a somewhat ornate rendering of the cantus firmus in the highest voice, subsidiary melodic material partly derived from the hymn tune in the inner voices that ent...
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26 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
A fughetta on the hymn tune "Wir glauben all' an einen Gott", in which the fugue subject derives directly from the hymn but manifests in the garb of a stately French Ouverture melody. Take note of the harmonic suspensions (including double s...
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25 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
A prelude on the hymn tune "Zwar ist solche Herzensstube", firmly rooted in D Lydian (D Major with a sharpened subdominant [fourth] degree, i.e. D major with a G♯) with its characteristic bright and diaphanous quality. The chorale melody (as...
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22 Nov 2020 1 minute read 1 comment PhilipDaniel
A prelude on the melancholy hymn tune "Herzliebster Jesu", wherein a canon in inversion (on newly-devised thematic material partly derived from the hymn tune) proceeds in the left hand while the right hand interjects with cantilena-like phrase...
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8 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
A setting of the sacred song "Der Tag ist hin, die Sonne gehet nieder" from "Schemelli's Gesang-Buch", for SAATBB choir with organ obbligato. Note the almost concertante relationship between choir and organist, the former serving as ripieno...
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