Wishful thinking
Friday, January 29, 2021
I would like to use both classical music and a technique within it as a metaphor for what I propose we could do to imagine the kind of ordered and egalitarian society that should be the aim of any responsive government.
Popularised in the Baroque era (1600-1750) by Johann Sebastian Bach – widely regarded as the greatest composer of all time – counterpoint is the writing of a piece of music using rhythms and melodies that eventually coalesce harmonically. (A good example as any is here – Bach: Complete Concertos).
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