This seminar, the culminating course in the music major, examines how composers after Bach have understood and responded to him. We will trace the course of the Classical and early Romantic period "Bach Revival" through Mozart, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn, and explore how he was venerated in the later Romantic era by Brahms and Busoni. Most of our focus, however, will be on how composers of the modern era have viewed his legacy and used his music. We will explore the pertinence of Harold Bloom's theory of the "anxiety of influence" for understanding the ways in which contemporary classical composers ranging from Schoenberg and Webern through Peter Maxwell Davies and George Crumb engage Bach's music, and consider both the musical techniques and meanings of reworkings and quotations of Bach's music in jazz and popular styles. Format: seminar. Evaluation will be based on papers, presentations, and class participation. Prerequisites: Music 202, 207, 208, 209 and permission of instructor. Enrollment limit: all senior music majors. This course is part of the Critical Reasoning and Analytical Skills initiative.