{"id":5467,"date":"2018-10-05T18:42:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T08:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=5467"},"modified":"2018-10-05T18:44:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T08:44:05","slug":"it-must-be-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5467","title":{"rendered":"It must be resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span 11pt=\"\" font-size:=\"\" style=\"\">Bach, a master of harmony and counterpoint, would not settle for imperfect sounds, no matter where he was.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Johann Reichardt recalled:<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p msonormal=\"\">\n\t\t<span style=\"\">Johann Sebastian Bach once came into a large company while a musical amateur was sitting and improvising at a harpsichord.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>The moment the latter became aware of the presence of the great master, he sprang up and left off with a dissonant chord.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Bach, who heard it, was so offended by this musical unpleasantness that he passed right by his host, who was coming to meet him, rushed to the harpsichord, resolved the dissonant chord, and made an appropriate cadence.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Only then did he approach the host and make him his bow of greeting.<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\tCited in: <span font-style:=\"\" italic=\"\" style=\"\">The New Bach Reader: <em>A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents<\/em><\/span>. &nbsp;Edited by Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel. &nbsp;Revised and expanded by Christoph Wolff. New York: Norton, 1998, p. 411.<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bach, a master of harmony and counterpoint, would not settle for imperfect sounds, no matter where he was.&nbsp; Johann Reichardt recalled: Johann Sebastian Bach once came into a large company while a musical amateur was sitting and improvising at a harpsichord.&nbsp; The moment the latter became aware of the presence of the great master, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[550],"tags":[1450,1036],"class_list":["post-5467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composers","tag-cadence","tag-johann-sebastian-bach"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5469,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions\/5469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}