Dmitry Shostakovich also made use of the German musical alphabet (and the German transliteration of his name) to include DSCH (for Dimitri Schostakowitsch) in quite a few pieces.
+OrchestraEnlighten *The German music notation has a variant letter assignment from the Franco-English notation.* The _deutſcher Art_ "B.A.C.H." resembles the Franco-English sequence B♭, A, C, B♮.
Now I'd like to hear the story of how B natural got to be H in German. I had thought it was simple, that somebody mistook a sloppyily-written Natural sign for an H.
In Mozart's requiem, in the Lacrimosa movement, the bass sings "iudicandus homo reus" on the notes of the BACH theme
He spelled it bachwards.
Dmitry Shostakovich also made use of the German musical alphabet (and the German transliteration of his name) to include DSCH (for Dimitri Schostakowitsch) in quite a few pieces.
Thanks, also the Bach signature - cross with four staves is interesting as well ( and it is my profile )
Yes!
...and, you guessed it, Jon Lord - from Deep Purple - "Continuo on B A C H#"
That's a nice bit of Trivia brilliantly presented!
+OrchestraEnlighten *The German music notation has a variant letter assignment from the Franco-English notation.* The _deutſcher Art_ "B.A.C.H." resembles the Franco-English sequence B♭, A, C, B♮.
Now I'd like to hear the story of how B natural got to be H in German. I had thought it was simple, that somebody mistook a sloppyily-written Natural sign for an H.
And what better device to describe it than the enigmatic Oboe da Caccia.
I have long wondered about this.
The romance name of the notes being syllables, one can create clever little sentences with notes...
Great segment.
Bach needs to thank his parents for his name
So Germans name notes like they are using Phrygian?!
Because it's more metal. 🤘
2:48 Oh, this is slightly reminiscent of Ich ruf' zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ
OKAY, fine. And we know that Eb is S. But what are the German letters for Db, F#, G#?
Norwegians are like Germans in this context…🇳🇴
Julie Andrews and half of the world.
Not entirely... that TI (instead of SI) is particularly British and rather annoying.
Julie Andrews: "Bach is definitely one of my favorite things!"
Ravi Shankar: "Twelve-tones? how boring."