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Bach's fugue in G minor

Last reviewed: February 16, 2007 ~3 min read

Bach

As we listen to this music, I wonder if we can imagine the architectural design that fits with it....which of the following 'interiors' would more closely connect with the Fugue in terms of style and feeling (oh, and why)

An architectural representation of the Bach Fugue in G Minor would be a small, dignified country church. The arched ceiling of the small place of worship would be high, as if the maker of the church reaching to God. This would reflect orderly procession of the notes and the focused, intense organization of the composition. The composition suggests that the composer aspires to create a piece as orderly as God's creation of the world. But the church would be small, intimate, and individualistic to reflect the greater focus of the Baroque period upon the individual, rather than upon institutions as was common in the Renaissance. The piece grows more ornate as it evolves, without breaks in the composition, and thus the church would have small pockets of beautiful ornate sculpture and stained glass that took the gazer by surprise. The pews would be orderly in their arrangement, so everyone could look upon the minister as he gave his sermon from a plain pulpit.

How do we treat the creative and intellectual geniuses of our time? And why?

We love geniuses better after they are dead. When geniuses are alive they make people uncomfortable in the ways that they challenge accepted artistic and intellectual concepts. People reject geniuses, and prefer more mainstream representations of art and literature in popular culture. But true geniuses still manage to affect the culture they live in, even if they do not gain fame and fortune. And after they die, people finally show respect to geniuses, and acknowledge their influence in culture and their ability to honestly tell the stories of people's daily lives. This has always been the case. Bach was an obscure church organist who is now one of the most famous composers who ever lived and Mozart was unappreciated and died in a pauper's grave. Jackson Pollock's Abstract Impressionism is reflected in advertising today, but its nonrepresentational style frightened people in his day, and even popular great artists like Picasso and Shakespeare were not fully appreciated, or at least were not acknowledged as unique until they were very old, or until the age of their greatest creative ferment had past. People do not like to be made uncomfortable by heart, hence the preference for the cliches of popular art.

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