{"id":1528,"date":"2011-01-26T11:41:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T11:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2011-01-26T11:41:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T11:41:42","slug":"1528","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/26\/1528\/","title":{"rendered":"JS Bach&#8217;s Toccata and Fugue in D minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from <a href=\"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/2011\/01\/the-shape-of-song\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Shape Of Song<\/a> comes this visualisation of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Johann Sebastian Bach\" rel=\"lastfm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Johann%2BSebastian%2BBach\">JS Bach<\/a>&#8216;s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor%2C_BWV_565\">Toccata and Fugue in D minor<\/a> (BWV 565)<span><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The\u00a0Toccata and Fugue in D minor\u00a0is a piece of organ music\u00a0believed to have been composed by\u00a0<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Johann Sebastian Bach\" rel=\"lastfm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Johann%2BSebastian%2BBach\">Johann Sebastian Bach<\/a> sometime between1703 and\u00a01707. It is one of the most famous works in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Organ repertoire\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Organ_repertoire\">organ repertoire<\/a>, and has been used in a variety of popular media ranging from film, to video games, to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Rock music\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rock_music\">rock music<\/a>, and ringtones. The attribution of the piece to Bach has been challenged since the 1980s by a number of scholars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whoever composed it, it is one of my favourite pieces of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Classical music\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Classical_music\">classical music<\/a>. This is a fabulous way to see the piece being played as you listen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ipzR9bhei_o?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o&amp;fmt=18\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from The Shape Of Song comes this visualisation of JS Bach&#8216;s Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565). The\u00a0Toccata and Fugue in D minor\u00a0is a piece of organ music\u00a0believed to have been composed by\u00a0Johann Sebastian Bach sometime between1703 and\u00a01707. It is one of the most famous works in the organ repertoire, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,20,32],"tags":[98,286,706,1095,1207,1583,1614,2083,2582,2801,3028,3251,3341],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-linkage","category-music","category-videos","tag-98","tag-arts","tag-classical-music","tag-fantasia","tag-fugue","tag-january","tag-johann-sebastian-bach","tag-music-2","tag-rollerball","tag-sound-recording-and-reproduction","tag-toccata-and-fugue-in-d-minor-bwv-565","tag-wikipedia","tag-youtube","post_format-post-format-audio","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6OeSW-1528","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}