The vocal sense is the most important factor in the hearing of polyphony. One hears counterpoint far less in terms of its component notes than in terms of the transitions between these notes. - Ralph Kirkpatrick
2008, December 13
Off to the Post Office
The Lea scores have found a new home in Sweden.
2008, November 28
Bach Lea Pocket Scores
Nine Bach Lea Pocket Scores for sale via PayPal..
For sale: a bundle of nine Lea Pocket Scores of Johann Sebastian Bach's music. Some of these books are in fair condition (though the bookseller said good), some are fine (basically like new). The WTCs are best; I bought them new and they have been very well taken care of. The violin concertos are good; the rest range from good to fair. All are readable, some fading of covers, one cover slightly stained. There are no more Lea pocket scores being published and the prices for similar books range from $6.00 to $60.00 each on aLibris. I think a good price for all is $40.00 plus shipping, or you can make me an offer. Offers will be held for two weeks and the best offer wins.
The weight of the set is 1 pound 10 ounces. I can ship Priority Mail in a flat rate box for $9.30, or I can send via media mail, with the rate (about half the price) determined by the buyer's zipcode. If you are interested, email me (mgtreejsb at gmail.com), tell me your preference and I will send you the link to pay by PayPal.
Thanks for looking at the set. I would like them to find a good home.
JS Bach "WTC Part 1" LPS No 1a
JS Bach "WTC Part 2" LPS No 1b
JS Bach "Brandenburg Concertos 1, 2, 3" LPS No 27
JS Bach "Brandenburg Concertos 4, 5, 6" LPS No 28
JS Bach "Four Suites for Orchestra BWV " LPS No 55
JS Bach "Vioin Concertos a minor BWV 1041, E Major BWV 1042, Double in d minor BWV 1043, one movement from BWV 1045 D Major" LPS No 96
JS Bach "Fifteen Two Part and Fifteen Three Part Inventions; Goldbergs; Italian Concerto" LPS No 21
JS Bach "Six English Suites and Six French Suites" LPS No 98c
JS Bach "Five Toccatas; Three Preludes and Fugues; Four Preludes and Fughettas; Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue; more" LPS No 45
Komm Jesu Komm BWV 229
Listening to beautiful music Bach's motet Komm Jesu Komm
Motet BWV 229: Komm, Jesu Komm.
Unfortunately, the person who created the slide show and uploaded the music did not give any information about the choir or director, so I am unable to pass it on.
2008, October 17
JSB Chorales
What is on JSBChorales?
The core of JSBChorales is the set of four-part harmonized chorales.
I have added a few other chorale-based pieces, but they are extra bonuses.
The two lists that contain everything on the site are:
the four part chorales
some (as in a few) organ chorales, chorale fantasias, embellished chorales.
If the piece is not on these two lists, it is not on the site. Unless I live to be 150 years old and have very little else to do, I doubt that most of the organ chorales will make it to the site.
Sets of the files are available in zipped format.
2008, September 30
Wedding Chorales
Three chorales with horns
At last, another group of four part chorales is uploaded. The three Wedding chorales, BWV 250, 251 and 252 all have two trumpets added to the four voices. The first horn doubles the soprano, and the second horn has a more difficult time adding counterpoint with lots of eighth notes, and even two 32nd notes at one point. Good luck to the second trumpet.
This page has links to download the midi files.
This page, down toward the bottom, has links to download the mp3 files.
Enjoy!
2008, August 31
Recuperation and Revision
Posted today: chorales from the motets. Completes chorales from known cantatas and motets.
Slowly the routine is returning to normal. My back injury is healing; the revision is slowly resuming. Today I uploaded the final set of chorales from known cantatas and motets. Also included in the upload is BWV 1.6 for the Annunciation, which I accidently left out of the chronology.
An mp3 file was also uploaded for BWV 157.5, somehow it got missed in the chorales for the Purification of Mary.
The second part of the revision is the set of four part chorales from BWV 250 to 438. So 217 down and 188 to go.
2008, August 02
Family Cats
Family cats from Los Osos to San Pablo..
Lulu at rest, don't bother her.
Two cats in this picture, Itsy Bitsy and Baby Jane.
Monkey in filtered sunlight.
Lulu and Monkey were captured asleep on my visit to my daughter and granddaughter in July. Baby Jane (Lady Jane Grey) was captured looking up at the late Itsy Bitsy's photo.
2008, July 31
Two Computers
Two computers replace one
GarageBand did not work for me—no experience with sequencers and all the tutorials start at a level over my head. I'm sure a youngster could come in here and show me how to do what I need done very quickly, but I am not able to figure it out for myself.
So I got an original iBook to run Panther and QuickTime 6.5 with Jeux, the organ SoundFont so I can make my conversions of a midi file to a QuickTime file with the capablilty to assign instruments to the channels. With an eight month old intel MacBook to run the big programs on Tiger, I will be in business again sooner rather than later.
So the computer problem is solved; now to tackle the rehab for the back injury.
