FriendlyCroock (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

I hear that when your mother first saw you, she decided to leave you on the front steps of a police station while she turned herself in....Bitch !

SIlentPianist47 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

No Bach no Chopin, true.... Bach made people emotional... Chopin even loves Bach.... Stop about Chopin.... I started to love Bach nowadays... A well playing by Glenn Gould!

lifeisacrapp (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

SO am I.....I love this guy:-D

lumberjackv (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

This is so beautiful. I am mesmerized.

flipscratch81 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Then again, I could be very unfair here. It's just, I grew up hearing the B minor sonata, hungarian rhapsody, tons of Brahms pieces, and so much romantic harmony. I also grew up hearing Bach in church. I had a fair choice. And now....what makes me emotional? well, Bach.

flipscratch81 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

It's crazy. When I listen to Bach it's as if I hear another great composer saying, "shit, I could do better, forget about all the sappy superficial stuff, can you hear this? can you really? b/c I don't care if you do or if you don't. I have a God to serve and kids to feed....bitch." That's what I hear if Liszt or Brahms really tried and got over their spoiled lives.

flipscratch81 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Ha! Great responses! And DEFINITELY worthy of a reply. Firstly, let me reiterate. I wasn't talking about 565, but 566!!!! 566. Listen to the 566 fugue. Ok, so you are being very specific. Spirituality and emotion are different. I understand that. I guess I do, that is. We could play a semantics or webster game, but the ultimate judge is the eye of the beholder. Sometimes these terms are interchangeable and sometimes they are not. You ostensibly think all the time the latter?

TintedReasoning (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

...certain way that doesn't mean that you ultimately feel it.That's just an intellectual expression of an emotion, nothing more.Much like the emotions a well tempered tuning system would make us yield to much of the intellectual expressiveness of Bach's is codified,ordered and planned out. But I am aware of the music beyond that, believe me I am. It's all beautiful and in that beauty we transcend the music. But beauty is something of the mind, not the heart. Anyways, good day. =)

TintedReasoning (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

I for one cannot put to words, or identify why certain pieces of Bach's affect me in certain ways and that is because it's a subjective process. It's not written in the music. It's not Bach's intention to express one emotion, but to give you means to express your own self in your own little private realm of perception. That's why I said Bach's music isn't emotionally expressive. It isn't. To me it just isn't. It has a lot of mind in it. I mean certain pieces might imply you should feel a...

TintedReasoning (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

...emotional expressiveness. To me Bach is a vessel, of sorts. You can't describe or limit a Bach piece as merely sad or merry or depressing or agitating, you can't do that. You have to describe Bach in absolute musical terms because that is what he does. He uses music to transport us to 'God', so to speak, to transport us to that place where we really can experience anything, absolutely anything. That to me is spirituality in music. That to me is one of Bach's music's functions.