Back Motiu BACH Catalan BACH-motivet Danish B-A-C-H German Motivo BACH Spanish Motivu BACH EXT Motif BACH French מוטיב BACH HE BACH-motívum Hungarian BACH-motivo IO BACH-mótífið Icelandic
The BACH motif
In music, the BACH motif is the motif, a succession of notes important or characteristic to a piece, B flat, A, C, B natural. In German musical nomenclature, in which the note B natural is named H and the B flat named B, it forms Johann Sebastian Bach's family name. One of the most frequently occurring examples of a musical cryptogram, the motif has been used by countless composers, especially after the Bach Revival in the first half of the 19th century.