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# 13 Contamination: the Passacaglia: The present and the past

March 26, 2013

In the curious and friendly gaiety that sometimes appears in walking into unknown territories, immediately after the first breath solitary, here flows the past who accompanies us on the trail. The crowd of possible events and those that occurred, offering a rainbow of emotions, as this Passacaglia from the Suite no. 7 Friedric George Handel arias which provides progressive, with a sequence of repeated notes in a similar manner to the art of fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach. In fact, we already have an idea of ​​where it will go the musical cell that is repeated in slightly different tones.

Listening and contemporary recollection of the previous plea, it vibrates in us with sweetness and nostalgia. The notes open in the run-up of the arches that fall like tears on smiles plucked harp. Any reason not close, because it starts as a step after the other in a staccato rhythm of a trail off in a more indefinite progression towards ourselves. In fact, the harp collects all the segments of the previous sounds.

Like a fountain that collects flows, so as soon as the water jet is finished, it reclines and is preparing to start a cascade of notes collected in the violins, which are ready to throw in the higher tones.

As the harp is ready to receive the new ad, after a brief suspension, so we astonished with wonder, we start the journey that accompanies us with new reflections of what we were.

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Georg Friedrich Handel portrait by Thomas Hudson in 1749.
Image taken from HERE

To listen to the Passacaglia from the Suite no. 7 George Handel Friedrich click HERE