Bach's Air (Music)
...what make music very powerful and the listening selection Air, from Suite No.3, played in D major, composed by J. S. Bach, (“Types of Listeners”: “The Casual Listener”) has the powerful affect on myself, which takes me back to when I was young and still in the presence of my grandmother. The concept which Bach encompasses in his piece, Air, from the Suite No. 3, illustrates how a piece so superbly simple can create a mood of serenity (like my grandmother’s) and yet add enough motion to hold the listener's interest. This interest is from the technique Bach uses. Rather than repeat each pitch at the same level, Bach writes the second note to sound an octave either higher or lower creating the effect. Bach illustrates the manner in which a great composer uses the usual patterns of chords and notes and adds to them the proper proportion of change and imagination. Though Bach’s uses a festival orches...