The WTF Bach Podcast
By Evan Shinners
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Episodes: 98
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Experience the music of Bach as you never have before. For music lovers, to professional musicians, let WTF Bach guide your mind through a contrapuntal journey. wtfbach.substack.com
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Borges, Bach, Barthelme.
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May 30, 2025 |
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Bach as A Minor in a minor.
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May 21, 2025 |
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Alleluia! Bach's Jubilant Ululation.
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May 01, 2025 |
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Bach’s St. John Passion: Which Version?
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Baroque Keyboardists Weren’t Specialists—They Played Everything
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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The 'Actus Tragicus' BWV 106
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. An Audiobook.
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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MiniSeries! 10: The Final Episode
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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MiniSeries! 9: Revisions Part Two
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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MiniSeries! 8: A Bachian Fractal
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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MiniSeries! 7: Canon at MOVING Intervals
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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MiniSeries! 6: A Sloth Canon
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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MiniSeries! 5: Canonic Revisions Part One
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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MiniSeries! 4: Feet & LH, a 7th Apart
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Is Pachelbel's Canon Really a Canon?
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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MiniSeries! 3: A Canon At The Fifth
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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MiniSeries! 2: Divine Row Row Row Your Boat
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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MiniSeries! 1: Bach's Christmas Puzzles
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Bach Pulls Out His Dagger.
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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The Urtext Illusion: Textual Variance in Bach's "Aria Variata" BWV 989
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Passion Music for His Son: The F Minor Sinfonia, BWV 795
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Fantasy & Fugue in C minor BWV 537
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Anyone Else Getting Married?
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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The 3rd Keyboard Partita (A Crucial Revision)
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Performer's Commentary, Vol. 3
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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No One Ever Erected a Statue to a Critic (Bach vs. Scheibe)
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Mi Fa, et Fa Mi est tota musica (BWV 1078)
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Performer's Commentary, Vol. 2
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Bach's Puzzle Canons (Yes, Please.)
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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Performer's Commentary, Vol. 1
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May 26, 2024 |
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What Did Bach's Business Card Sound Like?
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May 12, 2024 |
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Three Albums on Presale Today! (Ever Dance With a Double?)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Some NEWS (and a Cantata...)
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Bach Store is BACK! (+ Bach at 15 yrs. old)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Introducing: The Flute!
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Two More Cantatas (1724, Part 3)
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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2024. An Important Bach Year (Part Two)
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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2 minutes: P.D.Q. R.I.P.
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Why Is 2024 An Important Bach Year?
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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My Mini Concert for You
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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The First Double Fugue in History
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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I Play Bach's Table of Ornaments
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Bach and the Golden Ratio.
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Bach's Most Joyful Piece? (Chorale Preludes x2)
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Introducing: The Chorale! Chorale Preludes, Four-Part Chorales, &c.
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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The Crab Canon Isn’t a Möbius Strip. (BWV 1087 Canons Part THREE)
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Special Guest: Joshua Rifkin. One Voice Per Part
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Casals, Rostropovich... più allegro (Cello Suites!)
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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50th Episode! A LIVE Lecture Sponsored by Tonebase
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The (Other) Goldberg Canons BWV 1087 (Part 2)
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May 02, 2023 |
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What is Chromaticism? (Albinoni Fugues)
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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The (Other) Goldberg Canons BWV 1087 (Part 1)
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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An Encyclopedia and a Fugue
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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What’s a Pythagorean Comma? (Introduction to Temperament)
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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The Prelude in C, BWV846: New versions, Inverted harmonies and more!
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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What is Bach’s Longest Piece? (And his Shortest?)
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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Cantata 147 (Listener’s Choice Part Two)
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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Listener’s Choice, Part One of Two: You asked, I talked.
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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What Was the Only Non-British Music at the Queen’s Funeral?
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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What Did Bach Have for Dinner May 3, 1716? (And Other Documents...)
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Four Chances to Hear Bach Differently (MIDI and Musical ’Unbias’ Examples)
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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How can computers illuminate Bach? (MIDI and Musical ‘unbias’)
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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The Brandenburg Fifth: A New Way of Hearing It (Part 2)
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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Did Bach Compose the Sixth Brandenburg to Get Fired? (History of the Brandenburg Concerti)
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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The Brandenburg Fifth: A New Way of Hearing It (Part 1)
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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Season TWO! Announcing The Bach Store in GERMANY (and BWV1001 & BWV539...)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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That‘s a Wrap on The Art of Fugue. (Season one finale 2/2!)
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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The 14th Fugue in The Art of Fugue. (Season one finale 1/2!)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Special Guest: Christoph Wolff. What else can we learn about Bach?
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Bonus: Dictated in Blindness on his Deathbed? The Original Printed Conclusion to The Art of Fugue?
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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The Fourth Canon in The Art of Fugue: Upside Down, Slowed Down... How Much More Down?
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Bonus: The 13th Contrapunctus - in another way (for TWO harpsichords!)
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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The 13th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: also fugue this mirror a is?
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Special Guest: Chris Thile. Man in the Mirror (Fugue)
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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The 12th Fugue in The Art of Fugue|euguF fo trA ehT ni euguF ht21 ehT?
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May 18, 2021 |
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The Third Canon in The Art of Fugue: Counterpoint at the fifth? Or just a bunch of parallel fifths?
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Bonus: I Uploaded a Bach Album as an NFT
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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The 11th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: A Triple Fugue &... A Possible Anti-Golden-Section?
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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The Tenth Fugue at the Tenth: Also... What is a Key?
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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The 9th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: Two Subjects Combined at Two Intervals... Too much?
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Special Guest: Jack Stratton (Vulfpeck). Down in a big way... with Bach?
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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The 8th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: Three Themes, Three voices.
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Bonus: How to Detect B.S. (Bad Scholarship)
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Bonus: A Bach Article from 1985
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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Bonus: Listener’s Choice: You asked, I talked.
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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The Second Canon in The Art of Fugue: A canon functioning at two simultaneous intervals!?
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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The 7th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: One theme at three different speeds?
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Jun 20, 2020 |
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Special Guest: Robert Hill. How does he play Bach?
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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The 6th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: ’In Stylo Francese’
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May 29, 2020 |
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The 5th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: Our theme finally overlaps itself!
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May 21, 2020 |
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Special Guest: Brad Mehldau. Why does he like Bach?
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May 14, 2020 |
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The First Canon in The Art of Fugue: Where do these pieces belong, and how do they get much more complicated than this?!
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Bonus: Bach in Revision: How does Bach improve upon himself?
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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The 4th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: Where is the golden section? Exchanging the Dux and the Comes
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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The 2nd/3rd Fugues in The Art of Fugue: What is a Clavichord? Our first countersubject!
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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Bonus: Contrapunctus I: all screwed up... 11x
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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The First Fugue in The Art of Fugue: What is a Harpsichord? Eleven entrances?
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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What is a fugue? Who was J.S. Bach? Introductory podcast
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Mar 01, 2020 |