Soundscape Strata

Soundscape Strata Did Bach know to what end his harvest of melodies-in-parallel would become? Scholars agonize Was creation of counterpoint musical destiny a hybrid fruit of beauty knowing no boundary bewildering those of first look given musical staffs voicings and manuscripts always conformed to traditional confinement? What spurred his palette of sound to become one with the elusive rainbow providing independence through marriage of numbers allowing prolonged courtship sanctioning destinies to verge converge separate return to coalesce? And so From guitar to clavichord string quartets to symphonies counterpart airs were discovered became melodious architecture challenging new musical frontiers voiding tundra's boundary rules reducing history's brass survey monuments to mere reflections of past memory Popularization of Bach's invention soared beyond the artistic elite for in '55 "Picnic" graced movie screens initiating the unsuspecting elevating emotion with layered melodies Moonglow playing under the love theme Bach's kaleidascope of synchronous colors reached the century's romantics keyed into a music major minored ala Brubeck scat-a-tized via Ella and Mel and made unity of opposites a given Thus From Bach's synthesis of two dimensions musical ironies evolved influencing writers' language line upon line stanza to stanza chapter to chapter making magical the double entendre metaphor subtext contrapuntal imaginings all translated into infinite language-in-progress With applause knowing nowhere to go except to acknowledge the roots of prodigy a high five to the man who pioneered so much of our soundscape taught us all the numbers of romance ironically created attraction to opposites arpeggios with many colors intimacy amidst chaos Encore Mr. Bach Encore