Unearthing of the SCORE FACTS, related to Paradox of Invisible Dissonance from stereotypical distortion by collective blind spot involved no records, nor documents. Instead, recognition of previously missed, yet needing no proof, self evident and self explanatory dissonant sonorities was intuitive, informed by the heartache, related to Ms. Rozalina Gutman’s suffering from left unsolved Women-specific heart attack.
Intuitive pain-informed rediscovery of Paradox of Invisible Dissonance in Fugue-Parody by J.S.Bach revealed his didactic ingenuity: He composed and included into didactic cycle Well Tempered Clavier this miniature composition, with the aim to teach his intermediate level students to use diverse dynamics, in order to project invested by him music humor, through the employment of defiantly employed dissonant sonorities. In fact, unless emboldened dynamics are used for projecting dissonant cluster chords, their emerging through syncopation clashing sonic effect is muffled(!) But, the use of dynamics on the piano had been BANNED(!!) BY THE FALSE STANDARD FOR EXAMS, that forced millions of musicians into the hazdous practice of emotional repression.
And that is what had been the key contributing factor of the observed evidence of the collective Blindspot. His unique design of the piece with BANNED during his time and additionally emboldened with no resolution dissonance provides the sense of surprise for the most unexpected musical events, through violation of musical predictions.
This risk taking strive of Bach demonstrated his grasp of the significance of the hazardous nature of emotional repression, three centuries ahead of the related studies wirh modern scientific techniques, revealing his mindset of neuroscientist of Master music educator-extraordinaire.
This piece can serve as the humor based scaffolding for repatterning of inertia of technique for playing harpsichord/clavichord when switching to the different type of keyboard with hammers - both replicas of fortepianos from the time of Bach and contemporary pianos that had been created with unique design, based on gravity.
However, besides this original didactic goal, this Bach’s Laughter Test is critical for overcoming increasing zombification in any kind of music. Zombification and caused by it blind spots in cognition are worsened by the hormone disruption, used by rapidly increasing toxicity of multitude of offgassing products, that had been normalized and illegally legalized by the culture of moral atrocity, that forced maladaptive habituation to hazards, by subliminal shutdown of pain alarms to health hazards, while their cumulative effects continue to increase rapidly.
Humor made such approach self rewarding, motivating with enjoyable, fun content, needing no grading of the student and no tiring nagging of teacher as well. Bach’s ingenuity of using intuitively dopaminergic effects of humor and music - combined (!) is yet one more evident fact of his approach to teaching from the position of mindful and carrying Master music instructor, with the knowledge of practical means of intensifying the process of the entrainment of the new skills, when replacement of the old habit is involved due to the stubborn inertia.
Help to promote the change among millions of musicians, who had been forced into harboring the patterns of cognitive dissonance from childhood, due to the dominance of long lasting tradition of distortions of Bach’s legacy!
Fugue-Parody is desogned to serve as the excellent container for fostering the skill for using SELF DELRECARING LAUGHTER, THAT HELPS TO DEFLATE THE IMPULSES OF RETALIATORY HOSTILITY, THAT MAY BE EXPERIENCED THROUGH RECOGNITION OF THE ERRORS IN SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS AND IN THE RECORDINGS. It can help ease the paralysis of the collective Blindspot that caused it, due to evolutionary relics of still evolving human brain, such as Herd instinct, Fight of flight instinct etc
Rediscovery of Bach’s didactic exercise for overcoming zombification in music put Bach scholars on notice: They no longer can make him and millions of performers of his music to be OBLIGATED TO PROVIDE WRITTEN DOCUMENTS TO PROVE HIS INNOVATIONS, WHILE BEING UNABLE (OR UNWILLING ?!) TO RECOGNIZE EVIDENT FOR THAT SCORE FACTS, just as missed by them defiant dissonance in Fugue Parody
And unless they would be willing to become the targets of Bach’s own laughter, along with millions of his scores’ students joining his battle with zombification of music, cognitive failure to provide the true portrayal of his legacy without politically correct distortions is long overdue.
HELP TO STOP EMOTIONAL CONFINEMENT OF PERFORMERS OF BACH’S MUSIC!
This Fugue with defiant strive to banish dogma of zombification in music and beyond, is evident that despite seemingly scholarly term “historically informed performance standards”, it’s requirements upon pianists and other musicians for limiting dynamics or other forms of emotional withholding in music of Bach (or any other type of music) is serious health hazard.
And it causes lifetime emotional blocks to musicians’ professional greatness, that depends on the contrary ability to create emotional resonance. It had been instituted as the a part of the FALSE standard for exam/audition requiremen for generations.
The discovery of Paradox of Invisible Dissonance came as the result of pain-informed, intuitive decision to abolish common, yet FALSE and based on biographical distortions standard for piano performance of Bach’s music, that falsely normalized emotional withholding. It proved to be resonant to a number of modern research studies on the hazards of emotional repression. For example
Cowan, A.S., Keltner, D. (2017). Self-report captures 27 distinct categories of emotion bridged by continuous gradients. PNAS, September 19, 2017 114 (38). Link
Chapman BP, et al. (2013). Emotion suppression and mortality risk over a 12-year follow-up. Link
Patel J, et al. (2019). Consequences of repression of emotion: Physical health, mental health, and general well being. Link
Quartana, , P., Burn. J., (2010). Emotion suppression affects cardiovascular responses to initial and subsequent laboratory stressors. British Journal of Health Psychology Link
