Such a pleasure to read. using beats seemed almost profane at first but it allows for chunking the complexity where it could really help someone get what's goin

Such a pleasure to read. using beats seemed almost profane at first but it allows for chunking the complexity where it could really help someone get what's going on. I don't listen to the fugues much, and really mainly guitar arrangements of his work I'd like to be able to play one day (allegro assai, lute suite prelude, etc), but it's hard not to get mystical about it. jubilance is the word I'd use for his work. for me the music forms an imaginary navigable space when I hear it, and as everything that lives can hear and count, every piece seems like a meditation on what can be aligned, harmonious, and essentially, True in a universal sense- the awe of a creation for its creator. I'm an absolute amateur dilettante musician, but for someone just starting to hear his work, I'd suggest the skill is in being able to listen for separate voices and then follow them, and then to practice following them in simple pieces with enough dissonance in them to make you intellectually keep track of what's going on. the simplest possible polyphony someone can use to hone their attention that has analogues to early music may actually be Arvo Pärt's work, as once you can separate voices, the richness of Bach and other composers kind of explodes. great fan of hein's writing, a pleasure to be reminded of it and to get to comment.