Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning Kennicott Philip
Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning Kennicott Philip As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively, and spent the next five years trying to learn…
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Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning Kennicott Philip
As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively, and spent the next five years trying to learn one of the composer's greatest keyboard masterpieces, the Goldberg Variations. He describes the joys of mastering some of the piano pieces, the frustrations that plague his understanding of others, and the surpassing beauty of the melodies, harmonies, and counterpoint that distinguish them. In Counterpoint, he recounts his efforts to rise to the challenge, and to fight through his grief by coming to terms with his memories of a difficult, complicated childhood.
What does it mean to know another human Ultimately, he raises two questions that become increasingly interrelated, not unlike a contrapuntal passage in one of the variations itself: What does it mean to know a piece of music?
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