ExclusiveBach: Prelude in A minor, BWV 922 - Fragmentary performance

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude in A minor, BWV 922 - Fragmentary performance. This beautiful piece was played by Sylvia Kind. It has common licence (CC BY-SA 3.0 Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported), and is provided through musopen.org.

The Fantasia in A minor appears to be an extensive exercise in polyptoton: the repetition of a word in a slightly different form each time. The concept comes from rhetoric, which has many terms for different sorts of repetition in a text. Besides polyptoton, for instance, there are ploche, epizeuxis, diaphora, anadiplosis and anaphora. In Bach’s day, there was extensive and detailed theoretical literature about rhetoric. And this skill of knowing which stylistic device to use in a text, along with the associated terminology, was also applied in writing music. Especially by Bach. This Fantasia can be regarded as a demonstration of the art of repetition.

Source: bachvereniging.nl

This video was filmed in the Swiss Alps above the village of Habkern. The local village tourism website describes it as follows:

"Mystical moors, unspoilt spruce and mountain pine trees characterise the landscape of the Lombachalp. Together with Sörenberg, it forms one of the largest and most impressive moorland areas in Switzerland (86 km²). It is also part of the Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments of National Importance (BLN), the Augstmatthorn Federal Game Reserve, and the Hohgant-Seefeld Cantonal Nature Reserve.

A comprehensive conservation plan has been in place on the Lombachalp since 2007: the Visitor Information and Management Plan. The municipality of Habkern is responsible for this plan. To this end, it established the Lombachalp Commission, which developed the conservation plan with input from various stakeholders and monitors its implementation. The implementing bodies are the rangers, who carry out traditional ranger duties such as providing information and guidance, supervision, environmental education and practical tasks.

Source: https://www.habkern.ch/lombachalp-startseite

The video was filmed by Simone Schlegel and edited by Wenjing Ma.





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