Abstract
ABSTRACT The integration of intellect and emotion in the service of communication is a hallmark of Bach's music. This view is endorsed by considering Bach's position in music and his position in music history. The former demonstrates that his music should be heard as the art of manipulating pitch in a dimension of time and the latter offers convincing demonstration that the composer can never be isolated from the time in which he lived. The guiding principle is the maintenance of an order governed by the arithmetical and mathematical treatment of numbers. Both the structure and the content of his work, as exemplified by the part played by the bass, his transmutation of rhetorical figures of speech into musical figures and his use of musical elements to communicate affects, are apt illustrations of his rational ethic. Examples are the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor and the ecstatic Sanctus from the Mass in B minor. The majority of these elements can not be isolated aurally and must ultimately be co...
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