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Bernard Greenberg
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Добавлен 26 июл 2021
Autodidact organist-composer and posthumous student of J. S. Bach, in Boston, MA, USA. All my work stands on his.
I currently plan to upload only my own works or major revisions to repertoire. To post my interpretations of repertoire in a venue shared with the world's greatest artists, living and historic, makes no sense. I don't plan to post my many edits of student work (I more or less taught counterpoint at MuseScore.com) nor tutorials. To check out my work in either area, please explore the link below to my site.
If you don't understand the foreign language or technical titles of my works, just listen and read the descriptions later!
I currently plan to upload only my own works or major revisions to repertoire. To post my interpretations of repertoire in a venue shared with the world's greatest artists, living and historic, makes no sense. I don't plan to post my many edits of student work (I more or less taught counterpoint at MuseScore.com) nor tutorials. To check out my work in either area, please explore the link below to my site.
If you don't understand the foreign language or technical titles of my works, just listen and read the descriptions later!
Original proof of Pythagorean Theorem
Inspired by YT Short math proofs (well, SOME of them), I made a 60-second movie of a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem I discovered (mathematically, not in a book or elsewhere) in January 2024. I have come to learn that some 600 proofs are known. I hope to make a short of it, but I haven't mastered that yet. I know you'd all like some new music on this channel -- but first, this word from Pythagoras...
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"Autumn Leaves" (di BSG 2001 et al), dans le style de BWV 146.2 de Bach.
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_Les Feuilles Mortes_ (“The dead leaves”, known in English as “Autumn Leaves”) is a French film song written by Hungarian composer Joseph Kosma (earlier Kozma Jószef) in 1945, published the next year, which achieved broad popularity in the following 15 or so, the time of my childhood, whence cometh my love for it. An examination of this now-standard tune reveals at its heart a cycle of fifths, ...
Ave verum corpus, motteto a cinque (di BSG 1987)
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In 1987, I visited a nearby friend with contacts on the leading edge of synthesizer technology, and played a very new Kurzweil 250 with choral voices, revolutionary at the time. Intoxicated with the power of a chorus at my fingertips, with the text of the "Ave verum" firmly in mind, I improvised the substance of this motet. Having recorded the result, I took it home and debugged it, and made th...
Trio für Klavier (di BSG, 1975) (on Hauptwerk Caen).
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I wrote this trio in November, 1975, on the (Hammond) organ: I did not yet have the harpsichord for which it was written. It works much better on the organ, so I have rendered it here on the Sonus Paradisi rendering of the Cavaillé-Coll organ at Caen, with a 16' "continuo" bass in the left hand (via Hauptwerk). This movement bears a distinct resemblance to the B Minor Prelude of Book I of the W...
Handel: "The Trumpet shall sound" (Messiah), violin obbligato by BSG (2017)
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Here, I have added a violin (section) _obbligato_ to the "B section" of this renowned Handel bass aria from _Messiah_, which former is scored for bass solo and continuo. The Deutsche Handel Gesellschaft score, whose vocal and bass I used verbatim, is unfigured; while the reconstructed figures are mine, most of the continuo right-hand is theirs (but not all). As with most of my other augmentatio...
Ave Spes Fortunata - motetto a 6 di BSG (2003) - omaggio a Rev. Hope Luckie
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The Reverend Dr. Hope Luckie, who has been a friend of mine for many years now, was Assistant Dean of Marsh Chapel (Methodist) at Boston University when I met her in 1999. She ascended to Acting Dean, but in 2003 relocated for a few years to Montreal, leaving that parish and post. A thrilling homilist and singularly caring pastor, she was dearly loved by the Chapel community-for her going-away ...
Trio sulla Regola dell’Ottava (di BSG 2020)
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An original trio for violin, oboe, and continuo created to demonstrate the "Rule of the Octave", a Baroque (Neapolitan) formula for harmonizing scalar basses ascending and descending (here, in the minor mode). Descriptions of the "Regola dell'Ottava" can be found in the writings of Durante, Fenaroli, Furno, and other Baroque (mainly Italian) authors/teachers, and Robert Gjerdingen's fantastic c...
"Jesu, deine Passion" di BSG (1996) - VST rendering (with text)
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This setting of _Jesu Leiden, Pein, und Tod_ (“some folks call it” _Jesu, deine Passion_ ) exploits an interesting feature of this melody, namely, that it can be heard in either the major key of its third note, or the relative minor of that key, which is theologically appropriate to the ambivalent nature of the Passion as redemptive suffering. Bach exploited this fact in the St. John Passion, i...
"So ist mein Jesus nun von meiner Sünd' gebunden", aria di Passione di BSG 1981
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I wrote this aria in a frenzy in November, 1981, my first attempt at a cantata aria. In April 1999, I revised and enhanced details I then found inadequate. The German text, apropos of Jesus’ apprehension in the Garden of Gethsemane, is original, and, as with many of my compositions, crafted to justify proposed music instead of vice-versa. (There was also an Isaiah récitatif preceding this aria....
"Wer durch Liebe" di BSG (1989), performed by Emmanuel Music (1994), dir. Craig Smith.
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I wrote this chorus while improvising at the organ in 1989, whereupon I devised a text which expressed a meaningful thought rhetorically and syllabically fitting the subjects I had improvised, and composed it out over the course of several days, premiering it with an amateur madrigal group the next week. In 1994, the late Craig Smith heard me play this at the former organ at Boston’s renowned E...
J.S. Bach: "Kommt, ihr Töchter" arr. for organ & performed by BSG at Methuen, 5/2010
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I revere the opening chorus of the St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) as the greatest movement ever composed by anyone. The faithful hearing it often credit it to God, who, in the person of Jesus, inspired almost all of Bach’s, work, particularly the Matthew Passion, which the late Craig Smith called the greatest achievement of all humanity. To attempt to describe either in this small space would be...
Fuga Chromatica (per archi) di BSG, 2016
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A fugue on opposing chromatic subject and countersubject. Parts of it remind me of Antonio Bononcini’s -Stabat-Mater-, -Fürchte dich nicht- BWV 228, the -Ricercari- from the Musical Offering, the double-fugue of the A minor Fantasy BWV 904 and the organ Canzona BWV 588, but in truth, the use of the chromatic tetrachord as an imitative subject predates any of these (e.g., Frescobaldi, and before...
"Vater unser im Himmelreich" 2017 di BSG, canto fermo in tenore in pedale (reupload for volume adj.)
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As it says, Luther's classic melody is in the 8' (tenor) pedal, with a "continuo" left-hand at 16' and cool jazz-like obbligato in the right hand. This is what one can do if one assiduously studies counterpoint and Bach. What can I say? I'm really proud of this. As a RUclips idol of mine says, "Espero que os guste; muchisimas gracias por verlo". Recorded via Hauptwerk, sequenced, on Sonus Parad...
Allemanda, della Partita per Clavicembalo di BSG, 1982
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The opening Allemande of the harpsichord suite I wrote during the first season of "Living with a Harpsichord". My opinions of this work have wavered over the years; at times I think it too rambling and long-winded, but during its brief life on MuseScore people loved it. What is sure is the pen-and-ink fair-copy manuscript reproduced here is the best I ever did, and there are surely no more fort...
Sarabanda, della Partita per Clavicembalo di BSG, 1982
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1981 was my first year owning a harpsichord, a posthumous William Hyman French double, and I for a while forsook the organ to learn and write harpsichord repertoire. This D minor suite dates from 1981-1982; the top of its Allemanda is my channel banner. What a pity that music is no longer written (or sought written) with those excellent old pens and ink. This recording is a sequenced one of a d...
"Nel mezzo della notte", duetto di BSG (2020) dall'opera "Le disgrazie d'un furfante"
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"Nel mezzo della notte", duetto di BSG (2020) dall'opera "Le disgrazie d'un furfante"
Freu' dich sehr, o meine Seele, di BSG 2019, su un ritornello di Darius Daly.
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Freu' dich sehr, o meine Seele, di BSG 2019, su un ritornello di Darius Daly.
Preludio per violoncello, re minore, di BSG 2016
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Preludio per violoncello, re minore, di BSG 2016
Cembalokonzert D-moll von BSG (2001): II. Siciliano
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Cembalokonzert D-moll von BSG (2001): II. Siciliano
Cembalokonzert D moll von BSG (2000): I. Allegro.
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Cembalokonzert D moll von BSG (2000): I. Allegro.
"Ach, Gott, vom Himmel sieh’ darein" à 5 (di BSG, 1989)
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"Ach, Gott, vom Himmel sieh’ darein" à 5 (di BSG, 1989)
El Primer Preludio (BWV 846.1) con la clave cubana -- de BSG (1999)
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El Primer Preludio (BWV 846.1) con la clave cubana de BSG (1999)
JSB+BSG: Prel. XXIV WTC-1 elaboratum a 5 vocibus per BSG (2003)
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JSB BSG: Prel. XXIV WTC-1 elaboratum a 5 vocibus per BSG (2003)
"We Three Kings" per canonem (di BSG 2018)
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"We Three Kings" per canonem (di BSG 2018)
Allemandesca sul Basso "Goldberg Varazione" (di BSG 2018)
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Allemandesca sul Basso "Goldberg Varazione" (di BSG 2018)
Trio for Celtic Harp, Cello, and Contrabass (BSG 2016)
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Trio for Celtic Harp, Cello, and Contrabass (BSG 2016)
Lamento - in memoriam Kobe & Gianna Bryant (di BSG 2020)
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Lamento - in memoriam Kobe & Gianna Bryant (di BSG 2020)