ABSTRACT
In general, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's music is rooted in the same harmonic-tonal system as the music of other 18th century composers. For Bach, they constitute a very personal musical language hut which is far less well understood today. An interesting feature of Bach's music is the organization and "placement" of the various stylistic elements in the flow of time. Bach's music is often very personal and radically different from that of other composers who seemingly work with the same material. In Bach's music the cadence is often more concise than in the classical style and is therefore included at a somewhat later phase within a musical phrase. The only way to educate the listener is to include Bach's music more often in trio sonata's concerts and to perform his most central compositions repeatedly. Players who want to understand it have to play as much of his music as possible and must accommodate themselves to this 'new" musical language.
