{"id":135,"date":"2011-08-02T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2011-08-02T20:46:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T00:46:13","slug":"day-six-harpsichord-concertos-cd-1-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Day Six: Harpsichord Concertos (CD 1-6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bach-Complete-Works-155-Box\/dp\/B000HRME5U\/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1311823878&amp;sr=1-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/img\/BachEdition6.jpg\" alt=\"Bach Edition 6\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harpsichord\">harpsichord<\/a> is an instantly recognizable instrument. <\/p>\n<p>Nothing on the planet sounds like one. And very few instruments are as quickly identified with their era as a harpsichord.<\/p>\n<p>But therein lies both its strength and weakness.<\/p>\n<p>Like the fuzz-guitar tone from the 1960s, a harpsichord cannot transcend its own era, which is the Renaissance and Baroque periods. So if you don&#8217;t like Renaissance or Baroque music, you probably don&#8217;t like the harpsichord.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not likely to be a problem unless you&#8217;re the Highlander and you&#8217;ve been alive since the 1300s and you really hated the Baroque era. But some people prefer more modern-sounding instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I don&#8217;t have a preference other than I want my music to challenge me, to vary its tone and tempo. Harpsichord music is swell for the first five minutes. Then it bores me to tears. Besides, every time I hear the harpsichord I think of the episode from Star Trek called &#8220;The Squire of Gothos,&#8221; which was about an alien who captured the Enterprise and entertained them in his castle, occasionally playing the harpsichord just to show off. (Kirk put a halt to the squire&#8217;s shenanigans toot sweet.) <\/p>\n<p>These are the compositions on this CD:<br \/>\nBWV 1052 &#8211; 1738 (Bach was 53)<br \/>\nBWV 1053 &#8211; 1741 (Bach was 56)<br \/>\nBWV 1054 &#8211; 1740 (Bach was 55)<br \/>\nBWV 1055 &#8211; 1742 (Bach was 57)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The harpsichord is an instantly recognizable instrument. Nothing on the planet sounds like one. And very few instruments are as quickly identified with their era as a harpsichord. But therein lies both its strength and weakness. Like the fuzz-guitar tone from the 1960s, a harpsichord cannot transcend its own era, which is the Renaissance and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69,83,81,71,70,84,82,56,78,79,80,76,75,86,85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}