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I've seen Midsummer in a dozen productions--with adolescents at a drama camp, with high-school students, with Meryl Streep, with Kenneth Branagh, with contrapuntal Purcell airs and limpid Mendelssohn strings, in settings romantic and anti-romantic--and it has never come close to not working.
The effect of the music was that of a contrapuntal nightmare, hideous to a degree which one who has not heard it cannot conceive.
Bach stands alone, his sense of design was inherent, but, owing to the contrapuntal tendency of his time, his feeling for melodic design is often overshadowed, and even rendered impossible by the complex web of his music.
After the exposition the fugue consists of a kind of free contrapuntal fantasy on the subject and its answer.
There is but the slightest trace of a second theme in the first part, yet the improvement in contrapuntal design over the suites is evident.
Bach had entirely broken with the contrapuntal style of his father and his age in order to gain freer utterance, and that the word “colour” began to be used in his time in connection with music for even one instrument.
This, of course, has no reference to the absurd fioriture and long passage work given to the voices,-an Italian fashion of the times,-but to the contrapuntal texture of the work.
His music must not be confounded with the contrapuntal style of his utterance, and although he has never been surpassed as a scientific writer of counterpoint, it would be unjust to look there for his chief glory.
In my opinion, Johann Sebastian Bach, one of the world's mightiest tone poets, accomplished his mission, not by means of the contrapuntal fashion of his age, but in spite of it.
It was one of the first signs of the breaking away from the conventional trammels of the contrapuntal style of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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