Comments on: Year-long projects update (and peaches sonnet)

By: Yukun Wu

Yukun Wu — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 19:28:19 +0000

That is great, Ms. Laura Vanderkam. Although, when I searched for “motet” in the Cambridge Dictionary, I found that this term is simply not there. That being said, I did find it in the Oxford and the Merriam-Webster dictionary later on: “A short, polyphonic choral composition on a sacred text usually without instrumental accompaniment.”
I do agree that by doing a little bit every single day, such as listening to a piece of music that Bach wrote every day, it’s never overwhelming. You also mentioned that when writing a sonnet a week, this pace of two lines a day feels quite doable.
So, I wonder if you are going to name this sonnet “Peaches” or “The Peach Field”. I just suspect that there is someone who has already written a sonnet called “Peaches”. I was also thinking about the name “The Peach Wood” but later abandoned it.

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:37:29 +0000

In reply to Barb.

@Barb – I just type “BWV [number]” into the browser on my phone and various YouTube type videos come up. The Netherlands Bach Society and the JS Bach Foundation have recorded a lot of the more obscure ones. Then many big choirs/musicians have recorded the better known ones. I tend to choose whatever is at the top of the listings with the thought that this is probably the crowd favorite. Sometimes I don’t like it and then I go to the next one (I have certain likes and dislikes with choral music so…).

By: Barb

Barb — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:23:05 +0000

Your Bach Project is really “humming along”. How do you select the recording — performance, artist, ensemble, conductor, etc. — you listen to for each work?