Bach and the Cosmos
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- Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: James Sparks and City of London Sinfonia - Bach and the Cosmos
Johann Sebastian Bach was the most mathematical of composers. Oxford Mathematician and Cambridge organ scholar James Sparks will explain just how mathematical and City of London Sinfonia will elaborate with excerpts from the Goldberg Variations.
Please note this film does not include the concert performance of the Goldberg Variations in their entirety.
The Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures are generously supported by XTX Markets.
Bach connected and worked with the matrix of a wider reality... he was plugged into things beyond music and laid it bare for all through it.
Fantastic. You always here how much Bach and mathematics go together, but I’ve never seen someone break it down so elegant and systematically as this. Thank you!
This all very interesting. However, I believe, JSB never thought about how mathematics intersected with music. He had a devine gift...he just did it.
Its not quite true though. He tried to be the 14th member of a society interested in music and math because the his name gave the number 14 when you add the corresponding numbers of the letters in his name. B=2 A=1 C=3 H=8. So you see he had a natural curiosity towards this intersection of music and math.
He was the result in a big way of his lineage. The knowledge and ability to create elegantly balanced music is a carefully developed gift. which is devine
@iraeich, apparently there was no greater influence on Bach than Newton. He attributed his discoveries not to "innate giftedness" or talent, but hardwork.
Bach`s Passions, such as "Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine", lead me to say this Good Friday, as it is written: PSALM 92: 1 "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: 2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound."
Awesome video! Been studying the inventions and I keep being amazed by the satisfactory mathematical techniques Bach uses. Loved this informative lecture to better understand his work.
Such a moving lecture!! ❤
Great composers are like the Himalayas. Above them there is only the sky, and higher up Bach begins...
Fascinating and freaky at the same time ... How deep can you go to "explain" Bach´s music? ... The answer, my friend, is not blowing in the wind but you will find it here!
Thank you so much for posting this! I intended to go, but being 300 miles away and hearing about it last minute made it slightly impossible.
This lecture is fascinating. Thank you for sharing it.
C.P.E. Bach is reported to have said that his father was not interested in "dry mathematical stuff", (whatever he meant by that.) Does working out permutations in order to provide structure count? And what about the supposed numerology behind his music?
Bach es el Dios de música... su cerebro matemático de Dios queda evidenciado también en la música de Bach. Amo en demasía a Bach. Cuando esté en el cielo una de las primeras personas que buscare será a Bach. Saludos desde Lima
One of the best lectures I have seen. And Ive been in University for 6.5 years. Take that as you wish. ;-)
Amazing lecture!!!
Thanks for shring such a great and interesting lecture!
I have never gotten into the depth with research and all...but the variations have always been addicting and modern beyond anything for me...I have dreamt of bach several times.
31:55 love the algebraic interpretation of canon structure!
Very informative for a musical novice like myself.
His smile of pure delight at 23:46
INCREDIBLE LECTURE
enlightening.
A very interesting and insightful lecture. But I must say that I would have preferred the Goldberg variations being played on a keyboard instrument instead by a chamber orchestra. With the Art of the Fugue this is perfectly possible, but the Goldberg variations are simply to virtuos for an orchstra.
Yes I didn't think the timbre of the strings suited the music. Too messy!
To my dull ears, the Art of Fugue is a keyboard work. It's Bach's treatise on keyboard fugal writing that synthesizes the florid renaissance style with Bach's organizational system. Additionally, the Musical Offering is similarly idiomatically a keyboard work.
I've played bach for 70 years, and love the 4part harmony and everything else the cello and piano bring out, like gould, a different elemental level. It's like the cantatas.
Has anyone read Bach and the dance of God .it's life enhancing.
@@deboraharmstrong4385 No, but as a fan of J.S Bach I shall read it
music and mathematics are both 'international languages' par excellence..used to discover, record and explore in creative understanding with these 'handles' from the broad canvas of each of us as individuals ...sub-atomically and atomically ..managing both sub-consciously (which our consciousness is just scratching the surface in understanding, leaving much to creative intuition like the nightly creatively restorative sleep 1/3 of our lives) and our daytime conscious learning to discover the great elegance underpinning with the 4 fundamental energies... the complexities of trillions of billions of electrical interactions within us as individuals to ongoing astronomical happenings that we are only discovering with the latest instruments e.g. James Webb satellite-telescope of past and present that are of similarly vast physically beyond our imagination even ....unknown up to now ...in vastness , violence ( because of its size),elegance only at this safe distance with the tandem of languages and knowledges about things playing catch up to the intuition [= INside-TUITON if only we can be open to it that ☯️ taiji 太極 and the 8 branches of yoga yoked together by vibrations are helping me to glimpse at 🕉].... that Einstein alluded to as mentioned in this talk !!
grazie
ok then what swing is ?
Angles faces - ratio- ALL IN ACCORDANCE - BACH : is the photosynthesis of the MUSIC OF THE SPHERE- LOGOS -bringing the supreme grace to our dodecahedral souls ! Tesla was right -ALL IS VIBRATION! GOLDEN MEASURE- MYSTERIUM COSMOGRAPHICUM - THE 5 ness - octave - solids ..geometry as structure of thought .
bruh
"I play the notes as they are written but it is GOD who makes the music."
JS Bach
Don't focus on creation, focus on the creator to whom all his praise was focused. Don't dishonor Bach's memory. SDG Soli Deo Gloria he wrote at the end of all his pieces. Not SCG Soli Cosmos Gloria.
Nothing special, the piano is laid out like a mirror with chords, you can only move in two dirextions on the piano, up or down (and skips) . Play any chord in retrograde against the other hands direction and you have instant music. Bach was simply amerdexerious. Anyone who claims math in bach is off in the weeds. They don't know how the keyboard works. And they spend years musing when all they should do is take a look at a keyboard 🎹 lol
this must be why your own performance is nothing special
Aesthetics do not follow mathematical patterns, the patterns is build into God's creation by God, like golden ration. Mathematics is simply a methoda language to describe these patterns.
Theoretical mathematics or whatever is definitely a grift. Regressive thinking
Jesus Christ simply gave bach this musical gift. That's all. The lake of fire is real, repent, acts 2:38.