Kate Grenville quote — “Others, tiring of the sound of Buxtehude and Bach for hours on end, wo…”

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Others, tiring of the sound of Buxtehude and Bach for hours on end, would complain there was no tune. That was exactly the thing he liked best about a fugue, the fact that it could not be sung. A fugue was not singular, as a melody was, but plural. It was a conversation.

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