Ulvi wrote:

>certainly will not challenge those who disagree with you into changing
>their minds; at most it will simply annoy them.

There is however a Bach-Rameau connection, if we want to play degrees
of separation.  Rameau's most ardent theoretical disciple was Marpurg,
who thought that Bach's music was a demontration of Rameau's harmonic
principles, and one of the pinnacles of art.  Since Marpurg spent the
better part of his life defending and expounding on the greatness of both
Rameau and Bach, it is possible, in at least one case, to be an ardent of
both...

Stirling S Newberry <[log in to unmask]>