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The BACH motif
"b–a–c–h is beginning and end of all music" (Max Reger 1912)
In music, the BACH motif is the motif, a succession of notes important or characteristic to a piece, B flat, A, C, B natural. In German musical nomenclature, in which the note B natural is named H and the B flat named B, it forms Johann Sebastian Bach's family name. One of the most frequently occurring examples of a musical cryptogram, the motif has been used by countless composers, especially after the Bach Revival in the first half of the 19th century.
In music, the BACHmotif is the motif, a succession of notes important or characteristic to a piece, B flat, A, C, B natural. In German musical nomenclature...
the greatest composers, a reputation he has maintained ever since. The BACHmotif, used by the composer in his own compositions, was used in dozens of tributes...
a musical motif used by the composer Dmitri Shostakovich to represent himself. It is a musical cryptogram in the manner of the BACHmotif, consisting...
The most common musical cryptogram is the B-A-C-H motif, which was used by Johann Sebastian Bach himself, by his contemporaries and by many later composers...
musical themes or motifs to represent names based on similarities between letters of the alphabet and musical note names, such as the BACHmotif. Whereas music...
inversions. Johann Sebastian Bach, whose last name may be represented in tones through a musical cryptogram known as the BACHmotif that is a cruciform melody...
Kreuzes' or tonic symbol of the cross) and taken from Gregorian melodies. Bachmotif Cruciform#Cruciform melody Merrick, Paul (2008). Revolution and Religion...
(not completed by Bach, but likely to have become a quadruple fugue: see below), the third subject of which begins with the BACHmotif, B♭–A–C–B♮ ('H' in...
intricate. The tone row for Webern's String Quartet Op. 28 is based on the BACHmotif (B♭, A, C, B♮) and is composed of three tetrachords: The "set-complex"...
being an asymptote and the curve lies between the parallel lines 2y = ±b. BACHmotif Serpent (instrument) S-curve (art) Tribhanga Figura serpentinata Lester...
letters. BACHmotif – Succession of notes 'B flat, A, C, B natural' which in German musical nomenclature form J. S. Bach's name. DSCH motif – Succession...
suggested that the key to the Enigma is Bach's The Art of Fugue. Contrapunctus XIV of that work contains the BACHmotif (in English notation, B♭–A–C–B♮) which...
are a collection of thirty short keyboard compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): 15 inventions, which are two-part contrapuntal pieces, and 15...
Mysterioso Pizzicato by J. Bodewalt Lampe BACHmotif Ricercare a 6 from The Musical Offering by J. S. Bach Dark Eyes by Florian Hermann Post Horn Galop...
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