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Chorale Harmonizations
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Komm Heiliger Geist: score, synthesized audio
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Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren: score, synthesized audio
O Blinding Light
This is a Bach-style chorale melody, with text inspired by Gary Gygax’s fantasy setting The World of Greyhawk.
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Chorale prelude for organ: score, synthesized audio
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Choral cantata movement: score, synthesized audio
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Harmonized chorale melody: score, synthesized audio
BWV 1006, Gigue
This is the gigue from J.S. Bach’s solo violin partita no. 3 in E major. I added a figured bass line.
BWV 1023, Prelude
BWV 1023 is a sonata for violin and continuo attributed to J.S. Bach. The sonata contains much fine music that is worthy of Bach, but it also contains some oddities. The strangest part is the first section. This section is in three sub-sections. The middle sub-section is a long sequence of violin arpeggios which is quite good. It reminds me of the Bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin, particularly the E major partita, BWV 1006. By contrast, the outer sub-sections are mediocre: they have little shape or direction, and they repeat the same material over and over without any variation or development in a way that is completely uncharacteristic of Bach. I speculate that Bach wrote the arpeggios and that some other composer filled in the rest.
In this composition, I have kept what I believe to be the Bach-worthy parts of the piece, and I have recast the rest into something that (to my ear) sounds more like a piece that Bach could have written. I have used the soprano aria from BWV 10 and the first movement of BWV 1006 as guides to how the material should be treated.