
Somewhere I read a quote: "He left us his mind." It was from a student about Bach's A Well-Tempered Clavier. The meaning is clear: As a teacher as well as composer, Bach devised a way to blend his art with education. In this collection of solos for keyboard, Bach "left us his mind."
Bach described A Well-Tempered Clavier as "a collection of solo keyboard music for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already skilled in this study." In the corners of my mind I think of this while I devise ways to make my art experience useful for printmakers "desirous of learning" and "leave my mind." I am especially interested in doing this for those already skilled in the study of printmaking.
Can one compare oneself to Bach and not be accused of outrageous vanity? That matter aside, if I were to "leave my mind" this is how I would do it:
I would use five skills: image, multimedia, text making, database and spreadsheet. These I would assign to five computer-based applications. I would think of them like keys and notes basic to musical composition and performance. In my morning's routine practice I used several of these "note skills" including checking on my resource, the Wikipedia to review what Bach left us.
To do what Bach did, you would have to put this plan online in today's age of digital reproduction. That is my goal.
To do what Bach did, you would have to put this plan online in today's age of digital reproduction. That is my goal.
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