Baroque music

I didn’t enjoy Baroque music before. I thought Baroque music is far from now as if a kind of ancient voice. I have no idea how to play Baroque music because I just don’t understand the music at all. Therefore I didn’t want to play Baroque music, it’s boring. But everything is changed since I studied it again from last year. Baroque music is my favorite genre of music now, especially about Bach’s music.
Johann Sebastian Bach is the representative figure of Baroque music. There are many of Bach’s music become the repertoires for musicians today. Last year, Ms.Qian - my new major teacher asked me to play Bach’s sonata and partitas for solo violin during the whole year. It’s not difficult to just play the notes without any analysis about music structure or some musical things, which means the technique it’s not very difficult. I was confident when I played for Ms.Qian the first time. But after the lesson, I felt I have never knew how to play Bach! There are more things than you actually thought we need to learn about Bach’s music. There are four main dances in Bach’s partita - Allemanda, Corrente, Sarabande and Giga. Each dance has particular character like rhythm, phrase and sound. In order to grasp these characters, I listened many different version of each dance and looked up materials for internet. In Bach’s sonata, I like Fugue the most. The form of Fugue is complex. Fugue has Subject, Answer, Codetta, Stretto and so on. Those music patterns build up the whole piece. They might repeat many times in one piece. It’s very interesting if you can find out these repeated things by yourself. After I analyze carefully, I don’t think Bach’s music is boring anymore. Now, every time when I play his music I was drifted away to another world, I heard a kind of voice from heaven. His music makes your heart pure.
As a whole, I think Baroque music it’s not that boring. If you want to play Baroque music well, you must to research and analyze as more as you can.