Bach And Holborne Analysis

‘J.S. Bach had more in common with Holborne than he did with Haydn.’ Discuss using studied pieces.

Despite all coming from different periods, Bach’s piece does have a lot in common with Holborne’s Pavane and Galliard. For one thing, they both mainly have a contrapuntal texture and are for few instruments, whilst Haydn’s Symphony is, obviously, for a symphony orchestra. Both the Bach and the Holborne were intended to be played at home, whilst the Haydn would have been intended to be played in a concert hall. Holborne lived in a time when it was rare to state which instruments were being written for so the Bach and the Haydn are both written a lot more idiomatically, and they both used musical directions and dynamics, although in Bach’s