Prelude and Fugue.

I started this blog because I had been told that if I was feeling bad it would feel good to let my feelings out. The truth is, though, that the last two months have been very good ones for me. I feel like the luckiest person alive quite a lot of the time. Nevertheless, I enjoy writing and shall continue to do so regularly. 

I feel that I've got off to a good start with the piano improvements I discussed in the previous post. The Bach Prelude is just about conquered, and I'm making good headway into the Fugue that follows it. While I'm on the subject, I feel like explaining a bit more about Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues. A few years ago, a probe was sent to Mars, in the hope of finding intelligent life. A number of things to represent the human race were placed in this probe. Bach's 48 Prelude's and Fugues were the pieces of music chosen to represent humanity. Many say that Bach's work in these pieces is perfection, and that all music written before and since has failed to match it. It is, then, little wonder that I am putting a lot of time and effort in to making my performance of just one of these pieces.

I'm playing the A flat major one - Bach wrote one in every key, major and minor. This was to show off the newly invented "equal temperament," which basically is how the octave got divided up into 12 notes, as it is today. It's amazing really. I learnt quite a bit of information in "Big Bangs." It's good to know that I'm able to play part of history! I just thought I'd pass some info on, because then it makes reading my blog more worthwhile. x