{"id":39,"date":"2009-05-20T17:47:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T21:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/?p=39"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:42:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T19:42:39","slug":"performance-yo-yo-ma-on-bachs-5th-cello-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/video\/interviews\/performance-yo-yo-ma-on-bachs-5th-cello-suite\/39\/","title":{"rendered":"Yo Yo Ma on Bach&#8217;s 5th Cello Suite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-39-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/8-yo-yo-ma.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/8-yo-yo-ma.mp4\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/8-yo-yo-ma.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>Yo Yo Ma<\/strong>: So this is the sarabande of Bach\u2019s 5th Cello Suite. Now, we can look at this very simple sounding piece, only about 80 or 90 notes. I\u2019d say \u201cOkay, well these are the notes. That\u2019s the piece, that\u2019s it.\u201d That would be the material viewpoint. Now, but who is Bach? Where did this music come from? Did he invent all of it? Well, let\u2019s think about it. Bach, we know Bach as a German composer but except he\u2014Germany didn\u2019t exist when Bach wrote this piece. So we think of him as a religious composer, lots of cantatas. But he wasn\u2019t working for\u2014this is not a religious piece, this is a dance. A sarabande is a dance. He probably knew it from when he was writing it as a French dance. But actually, what we know of the sarabande, that this was a dance from North Africa, and the sarabande was danced by Bedouins. And it arrived in Spain, and when it arrived in Spain hundreds of years ago, it was banned because people thought it was an erotic dance. It was lewd and lascivious. So it was just banned. So then it went from Spain and you actually have it in Latin America, the same dance exists, and the dance is in three with an emphasis on the second beat.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s in three, so Bach didn\u2019t invent the structure of the dance, he didn\u2019t invent the dance, but he composed around it. So basically he thought okay he knew the key because this is part of a [baroque?] movement, and so he said okay he chose where that dance was gonna be in that whole composition. So he knew why he wanted it to be there. He had an emotional reason for it to be there, but the dance he didn\u2019t invent.<\/p>\n<p>Did he know that it came from Spain? Possibly. The guy was pretty interested in lots of things. Did he know it was from North Africa?\u00a0 No. So who owns the dance? Well, the North Africans do, the Spanish do. By the time it went to France, it was a dance.\u00a0 So the French say \u201cThis is ours\u201d. Is it a German piece of music? Well is it? Now we sort of agree more or less So for a longtime this music was used as exercises until Pablo Casals came along and said \u201cThis is incredible music. I got to get all of this music together to make it one piece. Is it exercise music? Is it great music? It\u2019s all of those things!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/8-yo-yo-ma.mp4 Yo Yo Ma: So this is the sarabande of Bach\u2019s 5th Cello Suite. Now, we can look at this very simple sounding piece, only about 80 or 90 notes. I\u2019d say \u201cOkay, well these are the notes. That\u2019s the piece, that\u2019s it.\u201d That would be the material viewpoint. Now, but who is Bach? 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