GeNiaLiTy = BacH?

[LethalBunny]

Originally Posted by Thorolf

[Scientist stepping in]

My main interrest outside music is science. Indeed, people who call themselves musicologists never are close to envisioning a scientific “know-all” to music. So I frankly don’t understand where and when the evil killjoy scientists enter the picture?

I suggest they are an urban myth, alongside with the mad scientists of B-movie thrillers, and the untidy, distrait professor, brilliant in one field, but useless everywhere else. (To be able to do proper science, you need extreme tidiness most of the time, not to spoil experiments, observations and calculations.)
I’m afraid they’re quite representative…

And, indeed, most posters on this forum indulge in Music Theory from time to time, and these rules are only the resulting formulas of studying certain periods of music in a scientific way…

It’s only lately that the theories preceed the actual music. And a lot of the music conceived in this way indeed suxx0rz…



Regards

lol oh and about having to be tidy, well, I worked with a trainee scientist and I was scared at how laid back he was. really. he would always kinda make mistakes and stuff, really, we did an experiment together and nearly ended up causing what looked like it would have been an explosion. lol. it wasn't our fault, the instructions we were given were faulty. luckily things went fine. =) most of the scientists are so laid back, the clever ones are really really high up, but the mad scientists are the ones who have been with the company their whole life. I met some mad scientist dude who made tonnes of medicine for places like asia/japan etc new vaccinations, he was really laid back and interesting, he'd been in the company 30 years. although, being a scientist in the lab is actually very very boring. It all looks amazing but it's not. yep, totally unrelated to music! ah well =)

[el-russo]

Hi!
I have a question to each one of you. Does a number of bars in, say "Well Tempered Klavier" or "Die Kunst der Fuge" have to contain a certain mathematical multiplier hidden in it for you to be able to tell if this music is divine or not?
Just be true to yourselves. Is it the theme of the cross and Bach's name "signing" it musically in, say Fugue 4 (WTC I) that makes it deeply religious?
Or is it rather the spiritual message it conveys of the eternal suffering of humans and the eternal glory of the Force that binds every atom of this universe with the power of Love?
Regards,
el-russo