Re: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World! (57)

In article <slrnd8q8ld.pdp.slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Albert Silverman  <slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On 2005-05-19, Rick Massey <seafox@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Bach invented bupkus. Bach refined a lot, however. Second Practice came
long 
>> before Bach, and it would be more accurate to say that Monteverdi
invented 
>> '"Baroque" theory more than Bach, which is also inaccurate.
>
>I am not referring to "Baroque theory". I am referring to *CHORD-BASED* 
>theory, which is not Baroque theory. It is something entirely different. 
>Repeat: entirely different.
>
>What Bach invented was a *different method of musical ORGANIZATION*,
which 
>is not referred to as this in traditional "theory", and which is why 
>traditionalists still do not understand what this means, and probably 
>never will, tradition being what it is......
>
>
>
>Albert Silverman
>(Al is in Wonderland!)
>where tradition rains

Al, I really don't think you know anything at all about Bach. You've
claimed
that some of his early works involve "counterpoint without harmony" and
then his later works involve "harmony without counterpoint." Let me give
you a big hint, Al: What composition was Johann Sebastian Bach working on
when he died?


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