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    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...
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  • a musical motif used by the composer Dmitri Shostakovich to represent himself. It is a musical cryptogram in the manner of the BACH motif, consisting...
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    the greatest composers, a reputation he has maintained ever since. The BACH motif, used by the composer in his own compositions, was used in dozens of tributes...
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  • for publishing J.S. Bach's complete works Bach (journal), an academic journal of Baroque music BACH motif, a sequence of notes Bach (New Zealand), a modest...
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  • 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...
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  • G) is based on the BACH motif (B♭, A, C, B♮) and is composed of three tetrachords: The first four notes of the row are the BACH motif itself, followed by...
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    musical themes or motifs to represent names based on similarities between letters of the alphabet and musical note names, such as the BACH motif, whereas music...
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  • inversions. Johann Sebastian Bach, whose last name may be represented in tones through a musical cryptogram known as the BACH motif that is a cruciform melody...
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    Kreuzes' or tonic symbol of the cross) and taken from Gregorian melodies. Bach motif Cruciform#Cruciform melody Merrick, Paul (2008). Revolution and Religion...
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  • The C. F. E. BACH motif is a musical motif, consisting of the notes C, F, E, B♭, A, C, B♮. The motif is a musical cryptogram, which represents the name...
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  • certain spellings which are otherwise impossible, such as the BACH motif and the DSCH motif (the latter of which also uses the "S" name for what in Anglophone...
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  • consists of 10 notes, yielded by the letters "M-I-L-E-S-D-A-V-I-S" (see BACH motif, and Schoenberg hexachord "EsCHBEG", and the chart at Musical notes#Accidentals)...
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    Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her" (category Compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    line. In the middle parts the slower dragging Bach motif comes to a climax: the alto voice plays the motif B-A-C-H in the last quavers of bar 39, and then...
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    instrumental ensembles and choirs to what he would have employed. The BACH motif, used by the composer in his own compositions, was used in dozens of tributes...
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  • intricate. The tone row for Webern's String Quartet Op. 28 is based on the BACH motif (B♭, A, C, B♮) and is composed of three tetrachords: The "set-complex"...
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    Orgelbüchlein (category Chorale preludes by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    Bach as a motif of "beatific peace", commenting that "the melody of the hymn that speaks of the inevitability of death is thus enveloped in a motif that...
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    529i/ii [piano arrangement of 1st/2nd version]) is an organ fantasy on the BACH motif composed by Franz Liszt in 1855, later revised in 1870. Both versions...
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    (not completed by Bach, but likely to have become a quadruple fugue: see below), the third subject of which begins with the BACH motif, B♭–A–C–B♮ ('H' in...
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    being an asymptote and the curve lies between the parallel lines 2y = ±b. BACH motif Serpent (instrument) S-curve (art) Tribhanga Figura serpentinata Lester...
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    influences in his work include composers Johann Sebastian Bach (he often used the BACH motif in Bach's honour), Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, Max Reger, Alexander...
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    note sequence B (B♭) – A – C – H (B♮), the BACH motif, thus connecting the piece to Johann Sebastian Bach, whose music plays a crucial role in the piece...
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    based on the new motif as all the parts descend with chromaticisms to a cadence. Section 4 (bars 57–67). In the final section Bach is at his most inventive...
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    O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    Johann Sebastian Bach. It was first performed in Leipzig on 7 November 1723, and is part of Bach's first cantata cycle. It is one of Bach's dialogue cantatas:...
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  • system Azione teatrale B B♭ B♯ B major B minor B-flat major B-flat minor BACH motif Back beat Background music Backmasking Bagatelle (music) Bagpipes Balalaika...
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  • the sudden sound of the BACH bells in measure 28, announces the "explosion of the museum". From this point onwards, the BACH motif keeps repeating and its...
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  • are a collection of thirty short keyboard compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): 15 inventions, which are two-part contrapuntal pieces, and 15...
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    the G two octaves above it with a trill with initial turn. Bach uses a loose inversion motif between the first half and the second half of this variation...
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    suggested that the key to the Enigma is Bach's The Art of Fugue. Contrapunctus XIV of that work contains the BACH motif (in English notation, B♭–A–C–B♮) which...
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  • are lost. Druschetzky is credited with one of the earliest uses of the BACH motif. Druschetzky died in Buda. Stage Mechmet, Opera Zemira, Opera Perseus...
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    34–57. The orchestration includes a flexatone. The piece features the BACH motif (B♭–A–C–B♮). The tone row in its four permutations (labeled Prime, Retrograde...
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