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Category:
Classical music
Music
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Date Created: 2007-01-05
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Date Updated: 2024-02-26
Audience activity: 643
Views per video: 4.33K
"Bach and his contemporaries believed that there was a rational correspondence between the spiritual realm, music, math, and the universe. These topics were linked to each other in tangible ways and it was thought that an understanding of one would inform the others. While their theories of proportion and intonation, cloaked as they were in the technical language of mathematics, may appear to have had Cartesian roots, they were actually the dying embers of something older, something more like alchemy than science."