About Luke Dahn
composer, theorist, teacher, learner, husband, father, visiting assistant professor at the University of Utah
Personal website: www.lukedahn.net
I also run www.bach-chorales.com-
Recent Posts
- A Majestic Trill from Schumann
- “Correcting” Bach’s Parallel Fifths: Breitkopf Editorial Practices
- 3-Second New Music Quiz
- How Bach Prevented Consecutive Fifths and Octaves
- Consecutive 5ths and Octaves in Bach Chorales
- Intertextual Connections: Mozart, Beethoven & Rachmaninoff
- Why that note?!? — Bach French Suite No.1 Sarabande
- Liszt’s Nuages gris: a Tristan parody?
- Aleatory Quiz
- Glenn Gould’s Singing Transcribed – Bach Sinfonia 4
- Review – Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner
- Gerard Manley Hopkins and Molto Adagio Thoughts on Music
- Goldberg Tempo Variations
- Goldberg Variation 5, Measure 17 and Dead Kittens
- Detecting Errors in Benward & Kolosick’s Ear Training
- For the Time Being: Fresh Advent Reflections from Auden and Messiaen
- Chromaticism in Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
- Enharmonic Spellings in Brahms Intermezzo in A Op.118, No.2
- “Fixing” Bach’s D Major Fugue from WTC2, bwv874
- Another Comparison: Beethoven Op.7 and Bach BWV1068
- Economy Goldberg
- Hymn Tune Composition: Color-Code Application
- “Expressively Charged” Tones: A Color-Coded Analysis of Bach’s Db Major Prelude (WTC2)
- Tzimon Barto and Aberrant Tempi in the Rach 3
- Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableau Op.39 No.5, “Vocalise” & uncanny resemblances to Chopin Op.28, No.5
- Rachmaninoff: “A Ghost in a World Grown Alien”
- 45 J.S. Bach Harmonizations of Sol-(Sol)-Fa-Me-Re-(Re)-Do
- Jonathan Harvey Listening Spree
- New Piano Music CD Project Preview
- Vertically Challenged?—Harmonic Deficiencies in Young Composers
- Rachmaninoff-ly Delicious
- Prime Contrapunctus
- A Metric Notation Issue…
- A (Not-so) Simple Lesson from Tallis
- In Search of the “Pure” Tritone
- Bach’s “12-tone” Chorale Phrases
- “Up” and “Down” the Scale
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Tag Archives: WTC
“Fixing” Bach’s D Major Fugue from WTC2, bwv874
I have recently been looking quite a bit at a few preludes and fugues from Bach’s second book of the Well-Tempered Clavier, and the D major fugue, one that I played as an undergraduate student, has particularly caught my attention. … Continue reading
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Tagged analysis, bach, cross-relations, fixing Bach, fugue, music theory, WTC
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“Expressively Charged” Tones: A Color-Coded Analysis of Bach’s Db Major Prelude (WTC2)
One of the most poignant expressive devices in tonal music is the transformation of a single tone from being consonant and stable to being dissonant and unstable, at which point the tone seeks to return to a position of stability. … Continue reading
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