1 2 1 3 1 2 1 4 1 2 1 3 1 2 1 5 1 2 etc.

[Donald Willard]

Warning: in German practice H means B and B means Bb, I think.  So don't
wonder where H is, it is just plain B on the piano, and when they write
B they actually mean Bb.  In composing you would not just have BACH
(ie., BbACB) but preserve the intervals and start on any other key, and
there would be backward, inversion, and backward inversion, plus playing
as chords.

Emeric Deutsch wrote:

> Re: Good old Bach made a hit out of the letters of his name
>          B - A - C - H
> I vaguely recall something similar about the Danish composer
> G-A-D-E.
>
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