IN THE SPIRIT OF LAST WEEK’S VIDCHAT WHEN JPF REFERENCED HIS COMPOSITIONS, AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THE PRESERVATION OF OUR WESTERN MUSICAL CULTURE, WE PRESENT THREE HARPSICHORD CONCERTO MOVEMENTS, PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BY HIM, LOVINGLY AND RESPECTFULLY RE-MASTERED FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT. AS HE SAID, THEY WERE DELIBERATELY COMPOSED REFLECTING EARLY 18TH CENTURY COMPOSERS SUCH AS C.P.E. BACH AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES, AND DEMONSTRATE THAT THE AESTHETIC TRADITIONS OF THE PAST DO NOT NEED TO BE ABANDONED IN THE PURSUIT OF CREATIVITY AND “ORIGINALITY”. THANK YOU DR. FARRELL!!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFvaPk_aUo48rJPxPnT8tQutfVBnNXlzN
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Thank you again, WhiteRaven, for sharing this beautiful tribute to Dr. Farrell’s extraordinary talent as a composer and appreciator and “ressurector” of classical-style fine musical artistry!
I would love/hope to experience, in my lifetime, a societal-wide return to the appreciation of aesthetics, also in music. For now, though, small snatches of things like this are uplifting and have to be savoured whenever and wherever they occur.
For me, the genre of music, to which one chooses to tune his or her ears, has a profound impact on the (at least my own) brain. It is like architectural aesthetic – there is a way we interact with visual and auditory aesthetic that shapes how we think, who we become, and it sure feels like that which seems to have been granted to humanity (by mysterious historical process, to which we’ve been introduced through Dr. Farrell’s books) after the Renaissance, is being rudely snatched away from the forces now controlling our world, through ugly music, ugly fashion, ugly architecture, ugly mannerisms…
It is heartening that some people are making efforts to study (and bring to life) musical architecture, and its profound influence on our minds. For myself, it is like studying the architecture of intelligence itself, and the relation of the material to the spirit world.
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Thanks for doing this… Just to mention, I think somewhere I also did the third movement of the G Minor. I never recorded the slow movement, which was just an arrangement of the slow movement of a CPE Bach keyboard sonata, but for concertato and tutti parts. Maybe someday I’ll have the time.
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Glad to do it ,Joseph! If you have the g minor 3rd movement as an MP3 or any other audio file format, please send it to me and I will gladly polish the sound if I need to and add it to your playlist. Hope you enjoyed the album cover I made 
! I would gladly send a hard copy CD to you if you wish. Thanks again for all you do!
Sunnyboy, your analogy between music and architecture is quite apt, one with which I concur wholeheartedly. I especially agree with the final paragraph, music structuring time as architecture structures space. In the process, not only does music do this but also, as you said, influences the architecture of soul & spirit. Quality music of any genre has been shown in many studies to enhance cognitive and affective balance. See:
As the motto on the logo for my YouTube channel says:" Music is the Medicine of the Mind".
My only addition to your comments is that not only does the music to which we choose to listen impact our brain, but perhaps more subtly but profoundly, does the music to which we are exposed in our day to day lives, which can impact our psyche,for good or ill, to either uplift us individually and/or collectively, or else act as an agent of subliminal mental attrition. In the past, we would be exposed to the folk or religious songs heard in the marketplace or at a service, later to tunes from operas, operettas or musicals whistled in the hallway, or even hearing some good jazz or blues emanating from a club as we pass by. Now, it is either mindless, tuneless blather from the likes of the latest pop or country “artist”, or, heaven forefend, violent/cacophonous rap or hiphop.
Anyway, please forgive my little rant, and thank you again for your thoughtful and supportive comments.
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