Example sentences for: bach

How can you use “bach” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We hear a lot of musical quotations--from Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring to Leonard Bernstein's Candide to Bob Dylan and Duke Ellington--that bounce around a theme from the "Ricercare" of Bach's Musical Offering . Images that would work well on album covers fly by on big screens --the moon, a baby, the great red spot of Jupiter.

  • Bach performance in the style of those old Grand Teutons--conductors like Furtwängler, Klemperer, and von Karajan--has fallen out of fashion and favor, and massed Victorian armies raising the rafters as they belt out The Messiah now seem quaintly anachronistic.

  • Colored lights and Bach’s organ music point up the name given to the lowest level, “The Inferno. ”

  • Rather, it is the artistry that rubs off on the person steeped in the best parts of the culture, the phrase unconsciously plucked from a 17th-century poem or 16th-century play, (no matter how corny, like Methinks the lady doth protest too much), the single word that indicates at least passing familiarity with history (like defenestration ), the fragment of an air associated with a Bach fugue.

  • I sympathize with Dr. Zellig Bach's tale of the horrible Yiddish rendition of the Census Bureau form [XVII,2, “The Scandalous Yiddish Guide of the Census Bureau”], and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if many of the other foreign-language versions were equally awful.


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