Bach's Musical Offering an instrumental work that is remarkable for how it was intended to be a joke on Bach, and he was able to use it as a marvelous musical rebuke of not only Frederick the Great but also the Enlightenment ideas that were overruling centuries of belief and practice. We'll listen, look, and dissect the work for the great encouragement that it is.
Bach's 'Musical Offering'
How a Musical Joke Turned into an Enlightenment Rebuke
July 4, 2021 • Jarrod Richey
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August 27, 2023 • Jarrod Richey • Ephesians 5:15–21
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