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Nice, but IMO you can't call Bach 1700s pop music. It simply never was popular.
by tgv 4y ago
Nice, but IMO you can't call Bach 1700s pop music. It simply never was popular.
- stereo 4y agoBach quotes pop music all the time, for example in the Quodlibet of the Goldberg variations: https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Articles/BWV988-Quodlibet[Braatz].htm https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Articles/BWV988-Quodlibet[Braa... It's probably easiest to listen to the Bergamasca melody which was used endlessly in pop songs at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Lohr99FQA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Lohr99FQA , one German version Bach's contemporaries would have been familiar with at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHypa4P7jT8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHypa4P7jT8 , and compare with the Quodlibet at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvZfe35c410 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvZfe35c410
- ot 4y agoThe fact that Bach quotes pop music doesn't, on its own, make Bach music pop.
- tomcam 4y agoI don’t really care how you want to label the music I enjoy. There just isn’t a taxonomy for it that I know of. It’s mostly but not always secular. It’s often folk, but sometimes it’s classical or baroque. It’s mostly from the west, but also the East and Middle East. And it always has a catchy melody.
- AlanYx 4y agoDuring his lifetime, that's true. However, there was a period in the first part of the 1800s when his works flirted with popular acclaim, especially after Mendelssohn revived the St. Matthew Passion in 1829.