So, this is my first post. I haven't done anything like this in a long time. It is quite possible that very few people will ever be interested in this, but I could be wrong.

It is January 4. New Year's Eve/Day has come and gone and resolutions haven't yet been made. I was thinking, however, that perhaps a project for this next year (that would more than likely fall into the years to come) would be to listen through the works of Bach and write about the experience. The journaling would involve a record of the experience of listening to a piece or collection of pieces, a recording preference, the mood I am in when listening, the mood I am in when completing the listening, what I gained from listening to the work, what I can use practically, what questions I have upon leaving the work, and what I might want to listen to next, Bach or not Bach.

This isn't an attempt at being scholarly, I certainly don't have the time to do that, but if I am to allow myself to be disciplined enough to listen carefully to these works, I feel that writing about the process is necessary. I will begin with Bach, and there maybe other works by other composers thrown in, but my purpose now is to listen to the works of Bach and become familiar with the output of this composer.

Another question might be, how will I go about the process of listening? Chronologically? by BWV number? The answer: I don't know. I will listen as I listen, and make carefully sure that I have listened to all of Bach's works (at least the ones we know of) by the end of the project. I might begin with the instrumental works. Since I don't have the english translation of the libretti for the cantatas, those may wait a while. There isn't really anything set in stone about this other than that I want to listen to the works of this excellent composer and journal about it. If you don't care, that's fine. If you do, maybe you can listen with me and reply to these posts with your thoughts. Either way, have fun and allow me to have my fun!