14 March, 2015

BLOG BACKLOG: UPDATES

Afraid my productivity has slipped a bit of late. Not sure if it's work-related or just getting old. Current status of projects:

Still working through Schulenberg's The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach a few pieces at a time. Today I listened to a little trio of minuets (BWV 841-843) Bach seems to have used pedagogically. About half-way through. The sheer exhaustiveness of it is impressive, and it complements listening quite well, particularly as Schulenberg doesn't address the listening experience as much as editorial, manuscript and musicological issues behind the song.

Also about halfway through the complete Kinder- und Hausmärchen of the Grimm Bros, which is about as peculiar as you might expect. Unfortunately that's about the only language work I've got at the moment, although I watched a French film pretty much every night in January.