Mar 31
The music of JS Bach Influenced by the Chinese
I read a decade ago that JS Bach's THE WELL-TEMPERED KLAVIER had been preceded by the Chinese in the Ming Dynasty.
Chu Tsai-Yu invented 'Equal Temperament In Music' in 1584, an idea that filtered to the West through Pere Marin Mersenne's book ' Harmonie Universelle in 1636).
JS Bach seized upon the idea...
Source: CHINA---3,000 YEARS OF SCIENCE, DISCOVERY AND INVENTION
by Robert Temple (1st published in UK by Patrick Stephens Ltd in 1986-Foreword by Dr Joseph Needham, world authority on Chinese civilisation)
ISBN 978 315 174066 5339.
I read a decade ago that JS Bach's THE WELL-TEMPERED KLAVIER had been preceded by the Chinese in the Ming Dynasty.
Chu Tsai-Yu invented 'Equal Temperament In Music' in 1584, an idea that filtered to the West through Pere Marin Mersenne's book ' Harmonie Universelle in 1636).
JS Bach seized upon the idea...
Source: CHINA---3,000 YEARS OF SCIENCE, DISCOVERY AND INVENTION
by Robert Temple (1st published in UK by Patrick Stephens Ltd in 1986-Foreword by Dr Joseph Needham, world authority on Chinese civilisation)
ISBN 978 315 174066 5339.
