Baby Bach

## Cover

Baby Bach is the 3rd Baby Einstein video to be made. It was released in November 1998 despite the original tape saying January 1999. It included the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and colorful toys from the 90's. It was one of the 10 videos to be created by Julie Aigner-Clark. In 2000, the sound design for Baby Bach was updated by Bill Weisbach. Clark stated about the video, "While the research is compelling, parents should think of *Baby Bach* as a gentle introduction for infants and toddlers to J.S. Bach and classical music, not a miracle intelligence-builder." A new Baby Bach CD came out when the sound design was updated. Later on, in 2004, Disney decided to replace some of the toys.

## Video Guide

### Opening

* *Toccata in D*: Cornelius the Dancing Chicken (replaced by Rikki Rooster in 2004)
* *Minuet in G*: Opening titles

### Balls and Kinetics

* Winkle
* *Brandenburg Concerto No. 5*: Machine Ball Factory (last scene zoomed out in 2004), Cosmos Kinetic, Jupiter Kinetic, Cosmos Kinetic

### Ascending Scales #1

* Lights n' Sound Fire Engine
* Sierra Clark and Shaker from 4-in-1 Mini Orchestra
* Ascending Scales Orchestral Piano
* Zylon Dragon
* Ascending Scales: Lollipop Drum
* Threading Cheese
* Ascending Scales: 8 Tune Xylophone
* Sierra does peekaboo

### Spinning and Rocking

* *Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring*: HydroGyro (replaced by Turbo Tower Totem Tops in 2004), Sun Pendulum (replaced by Sun Balance Toy in 2004), HydroGyro (replaced by Turbo Tower Totem Tops in 2004), Musical Bubble Bear (replaced by Bubble Monkey in 2004), HydroGyro (replaced by Turbo Tower Totem Tops in 2004)
* Balloons

### Winter Fun

* *Brandenburg Concerto No. 4*: Village Animated Sledding Hill, Wonderland Bear Band (replaced by Fox Hunt Man with Horn, Drummer Boy, and Salvation Army Woman with Alto Horn in 2004), Village Animated Skating Pond, Village Animated Sledding Hill, Village Animated Skating Pond, Wonderland Bear Band (replaced by Fox Hunt Man with Horn, Drummer Boy, and Salvation Army Woman with Alto Horn in 2004)

### Robots Awake

* *Toccata in D* / *Cantata No. 140*: Atomic Robots and Gang of Five: Mini Machine Man

### Ascending Scales #2

* Sierra blows Animal Jazz Band Trumpet
* Little Tooter Trumpet, Animal Jazz Band Trumpet, and Kazoo Trumpet #202
* Octopus Puppet
* Ascending Scales: Saxophone (replaced by Play at Home Saxophone in 2004)
* Baby Giraffe Puppet (replaced by Mini-Mals: Kiko Kitty)
* Ascending Scales: Bird Trumpet and Kazoo
* Sierra does peekaboo again
* Moving Moneybox

### Colors and Kinetics

* *Brandenburg Concerto No. 2*: 8 Inch Plasma Ball, "S" Kinetic, Disco Ball, Spiral Pendulum, 8 Inch Plasma Ball, "S" Kinetic

### Dancing Animals

* Cornelius the Dancing Chicken (replaced by Rikki Rooster in 2004)
* Aspen Clark tells a joke: "Why did Mozart get rid of all his chickens? Because they kept going Bach, Bach, Bach, Bach!" It made the other adults laugh.
* *Flute Sonata in E-flat, 3rd Movement*: RC Dizzy Kitty, Aqua Fun: Fish Tank, Cornelius the Dancing Chicken and Sunny the Sunflower (replaced by Rikki Rooster and You Are My Sunshine Flower in 2004), G. G. Giraffe

### Ascending Scales #3

* Peek-a-Boo Farm
* Sierra plays Junior Bongos
* Ascending Scales: Melody Harp
* Baby Dino in Egg Puppet
* Ascending Scales: Accordion
* Snowy Owl Puppet
* Ascending Scales: Ukulele
* Sierra clapping with sunglasses on

### Night Lights

* *Orchestral Suite No. 3*: Lava Lamp, Disco Ball, Lava Lamp

### Goldberg Suite

* Title card with photos of Tin Wind-Up Clowns (none in 2004)

#### Toy Carnival

* *Goldberg Variation No. 1*: Musical Carousel, Tin Wind-Up Ferris Wheel, Pendulum Clock: Magic Show (replaced by Big Top Flippity Flops Dominoes in 2004), Sun Pendulum (replaced by Sun Balance Toy in 2004), G. G. Giraffe (not present in 2004), Max the Animated Terrier Dog, Tin Wind-Up Ferris Wheel
* Tin Wind-Up Clowns (replaced by Tabletop/Wall Mount Clown Clock in 2004)

#### Hands at Play

* *Goldberg Variation No. 4*: Pop-Up Animals, Hoberman Sphere, Winkel

#### Faces

* Cornelius the Dancing Chicken (replaced by Rikki Rooster in 2004)
* *Goldberg Variation No. 30*: Baby Einstein logo is drawn with Marker, Whoozit

#### Finale

* Title card with photos of Tin Wind-Up Clowns (1998-2003 only)
* *14 Canons on the Goldberg Ground*: Holographic Streamers, Sierra, Machine Ball Factory, Aspen, Lava Lamp, 8 Inch Plasma Ball, Aspen and Sierra, Village Animated Skating Pond, Village Animated Sledding Hill, Aspen and Sierra, Musical Bubble Bear (replaced by Bubble Monkey in 2004), Aspen and Sierra hug

### Closing

* Aspen says: "The video of me is all done. I'm not a star anymore!"
* *Minuet in G*: End Credits
* Ford 57 Thunderbird Model

## Kids

* Aspen Clark
* Sierra Clark

## International Versions

Baby Bach has been released in several other countries, with many of them dubbing Aspen's parts. Some countries left her sections in English, while others cut them out completely. In the table below, "*not dubbed*" means the sections were not included at all.

### Trivia

* Liu Xiao-Yun, the (partial) Mainland Chinese voice actress, is also the Taiwanese Chinese voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid 3, as well as Elsa in the the Taiwanese Chinese version of Frozen.

## Songs

1. Toccata in D minor, BWV 565 (Opening and Robots Awake)
2. Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, BWV Anh. 114, Minuet in G major (Attributed to Christian Petzold) (Opening Titles and End Credits)
3. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050, 3rd Movement (Balls and Kinetics)
4. Cantata No. 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben", BWV 147, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" (Spinning and Rocking)
5. Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049, 1st Movement (Winter Fun)
6. Cantata No. 140, Sleepers Awake, BWV 645 (Robots Awake)
7. Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047, 3rd Movement (Colors and Kinetics)
8. Flute Sonata in E-flat major, BWV 1031, 3rd Movement (Dancing Animals)
9. Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068, "Air on the G String" (Night Lights)
10. Goldberg Variation No. 1, BWV 988 (Toy Carnival)
11. Goldberg Variation No. 4, BWV 988 (Hands at Play)
12. Goldberg Variation No. 30, BWV 988 (Faces)
13. 14 Canons on the Goldberg Variations Ground, BWV 1087 (Finale)

## Bonus Songs (Baby Bach Concert Hall)

1. Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B Flat Major, BWV 1051, 3rd Movement
2. Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D Major, BWV 1069, Rejouissance
3. Flute Sonata in E Flat Major, BWV 1031, 1st Movement
4. Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067, Badinerie
5. Two-Part Invention No. 1 in C Major, BWV 772

## Trivia

* This is the first video to have classical music by J. S. Bach and Christian Petzold.
* Despite, the Minuet in G (BWV anh.114) being featured in this video, and BE referring it as a Bach piece. This song is actually composed by Christian Petzold (NOT Bach), but he *attributed* the piece to Bach as part of his wife's music notebook for her keyboard lessons. However, for a very long time since then, Bach gets most of the credit for some reason.
* Highlights from the film, plus other tracks, can be heard in the Baby Bach CD: A Concert for Little Ears and the audio cassette.
* The 1998 version Tune-Up is the same one used as in Baby Mozart.
* Baby Bach is one of the only videos that doesn't use Baby Einstein Puppets, although there are a few puppets in the video (like the Zylon Dragon) that aren't considered BE puppets.
* Several toys in this video reappeared in others: Rikki Rooster in Baby Mozart and Baby MacDonald, Winkel and Cosmos Kinetic in Baby Galileo, Max the Animated Terrier Dog, Lava Lamp, Cosmos Kinetic, Disco Ball, and Musical Bubble Bear in Baby Mozart (2010), Saxophone in Baby Beethoven, Sunny the Sunflower in Baby Shakespeare, G. G. Giraffe in World Animals, "S" Kinetic in Baby Van Gogh, Bubble Monkey, Octopus Puppet, Baby Dino in Egg Puppet, and Threading Cheese in Baby’s First Sounds, Play at Home Saxophone and Accordion in Meet the Orchestra, Tin Wind-Up Ferris Wheel in Baby Newton, RC Dizzy Kitty in World of Words, and Machine Ball Factory in World of Colors.
* This is the second video to feature only the Clark daughters.
* When FHE Started working for BE in 2000, the music was recomposed.
* This was the only video to be released under Aigner-Clark Production.
* This video was the basis of Baby Lullaby.

## Discovery Cards

**2003-2004:**

* Car (Ford 57 Thunderbird Model)
* Cat (RC Dizzy Kitty)
* Chicken (White Rikki Rooster)
* Clown (Harlequin Cone Puppet/Tabletop/Wall Mount Clown Clock)
* Dinosaur (Baby Dino in Egg Puppet)
* Fire Truck (Lights n' Sound Fire Engine)
* Fish (from Aqua Fun)
* Flower (Sunny the Sunflower)
* Horn (Bird Trumpet)
* Owl (Snowy Owl Puppet)
* Robot (Black Atomic Robot)
* Sun (Sun Pendulum/Sun Balance Toy)
* Truck (Moving Moneybox)

## Crew

 Creator
 Sound design
 Music
Sierra Clark

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne8W04Zitoc
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20000818094026/http://www.babyeinstein.com/press/pr\_1\_99.html
3. ↑ Schulenberg, David (2006). "Appendix B: The *Clavier-Büchlein vor Anna Magdalena Bach*". *The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach* (2nd ed.). p. 448
4. ↑ Williams, Peter (2016). "The Anna Magdalena books and the *French Suites*". *Bach: A Musical Biography*. Cambridge University Press. p. 158
5. ↑ Yearsley, David (2019). *Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks*. University of Chicago Press. p. 239
6. ↑ 1998 VHS opening credits