http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/bach Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:46:57 -0400 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:46:57 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1851/bach-and-the-style-galant-progressive-elements-in-the-italian-concerto By Maggie Lu - While the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is often characterized by elaborate Baroque counterpoint and a relatively conservative set of aesthetic principles, elements of the emergent galant fashion are exemplified in certain mid-to-late career compositions. The galant style, which increasingly took hold of European music during the central decades of the eighteenth century, represents a simplicity and clarity divergent from the rigorous compositional approach that Bach has become remembered for. One of the most substantial instances of this stylistic progressivity occurs throughout his Italian... Tue, 15 Dec 2020 11:07 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1851/bach-and-the-style-galant-progressive-elements-in-the-italian-concerto http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/526/adornos-bach-schoenberg-connection-frivolity-and-expectation By Tristan Gans - Adorno’s case is built on the composers’ treatment of melodic subjects, which he views as ‘pure’ in an intellectual and philosophical sense. He contrasts this to the work of the classical and romantic composers, specifically Beethoven, whose work he views as overcommitted to the formal façade unintentionally constructed by Bach: essentially he claims that Beethoven et al rejected Bach’s challenging, philosophically constructive methodology in favor of “a category existing prior to the subject-matter and oriented on external consensus” (153), a category... Wed, 11 May 2011 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/526/adornos-bach-schoenberg-connection-frivolity-and-expectation http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/116/book-review-stephen-kotkins-armageddon-averted By Peter Crowley - As the world's first real Marxist experiment, the Soviet Union, by virtue of lasting seventy odd years, proved Western intelligentsia wrong. The latter had long thought it was doomed to fail. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union disintegrated two years later, Western conservatives and liberals alike felt vindicated. United States conservatives would point to Reagan's military arms buildup which the Soviet Union could not keep pace with, while liberal capitalists believed in the inherent unfeasibility of a nonmarket system. Contrary to these suppositions, Stephen Kotkin's Armageddon... Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:13 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/116/book-review-stephen-kotkins-armageddon-averted