ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
A close look at sound, pitch, melody, harmony, texture and temporal elements
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MUSIC OF THE WEEK
The Toccata in C minor is a poet’s utterance; as a minor key, there’s a certain amount of melancholy but it’s not an unhappy melancholy of the North German pervades it. It is almost like church music translated into a drawing room harpsichord.