Johann Sebastian Bach thanks for composing this piece. Did you know that Mozart, Beethoven and many other child prodigies learned to play piano by studying your works 🔥🙌🏾✨ Gutentag😎
He's also following his own harmonic rules and explores new ideas in composition. I think it's completely analogous to a jazz improvisation. It's only a matter of opinion whether the great jazz performers have matched or exceeded Bach's genius.
@@benidk3556 I think you mean you're stupidly awesome. Your denotes ownership while you're means you are which is what I think you are trying to say. I find it surprising that someone who is watching an instructional video doesn't know the difference between your and you're? I wonder if to, too and two is also a problem or what about there, their and they're? I bet your head is about ready to split.
No. just because you like something, doesn't mean you have to force it on to everyone else. the best thing about youtube is that it's NOT what people think it should be. it's that it is not dictated by what people think are good videos, but are videos where anyone can contribute anything. to declare youtube as a place just for your own interests and no one else's is a bit greedy and selfish don't you think? however, chris wright does make good informative videos, and i applaud his hard work.
+jigglymabob ......and yet you feel perfectly entitled to declare to the rest of us what is the best thing about RUclips and what it should and shouldn't be. Pot, kettle, you know the rest.
Some people spend their whole lives trying to teach - or understand - something you have managed to explain in 8 minutes and 29 seconds. Well done - and thank you!
I'm about to say something dumb, but, like Forest Gump, I am not a smart man. I don't get classical music. I didn't listen to Wagner in the womb; I wasn't raised on Rachmaninoff; Hayden was not my homeboy. But I am captivated in the last two or so years by this music! I don't know the lingo (except, they are not songs!) and lately, I've become acutely aware that I don't even know how to listen. I mean, I hear the music, but it's like I am only able to hear 70% of it. I CAN tell that there's more there than I am hearing, and it's frustrating to know that there is a whole level of understanding that I'm just not getting. It's like I can SEE the facade of the building. I know there's a wealth of architecture and design behind the obvious, but I have no idea what a door looks like, and no concept of how to begin to open it. So your stuff is incredibly helpful. I still can't tell where subject begins and answer ends - but the visual stuff really helped me start to see patterns. I still can't listen to more lines than one or maybe two with any degree of competence, so it's very helpful to watch your videos and at least start to know how to articulate exactly what it is I know I can hear. It's almost like this music is a foreign language: I can hear the sounds and know they are rich with meaning, but comprehending them is just not possible. Your videos are like a primer in grammar. Anyway, long story short, thanks for doing what you do. It's very helpful for people like me who are too dumb to really get what's going on, but not so dumb that they are oblivious to richer meaning available if only they could unlock it.
I know this was a loong time ago, but I’ve been studying music for 1.5 years and have been submerged into the world of classical music for 6 months (once I got in I never went back to popular music) and so as a person who felt just like you did, I have to recommend you an amazing book that’s basically an introduction to music, wrote by Aaron Copland, one of the greatest american composers from the XXth century. It’s called *What to listen for in music* I really recommend it!!
1. Racism isnt a fact or argument, dumbass. 2. classical music is one of the most g loaded activities. 3. no it doesnt just "intepret all equally" what a fucking dumb thing to say you want actual facts? You can tell what race someone is by looking at the shape of their brain (www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(15)00671-5) You are not only spouting false information but committing fraud when you propagate blatant lies about a topic you think is somehow a grey fog. So one again I will say, stick to music and let scientists talk about science moron.
Great Video! Absolutely Top Drawer! That fugue was a forgotten melody from my childhood! And I love how Bach ends this fugue very perfunctorily as though he got bored. He was such a show-off!
That is prbably because this performance was too rushed, and hurtled at full speed into the ending. A live performance would slow down and give a sense of completion and closure.
Short, concise and, thanks to the animation, easy to comprehend, this short video shows how voices are layered to create the architecture of this gorgeous art form. The Little Fugue in Gm is a perfect example to convey this.
Feel free to share with your class. A guy who wants to share for non financial gain. Bless you indeed. Now that is what life is all about. PS. Very well and intelligently put together. Thank you.
Thanks for explaining this, I was basically told a fugue was a round but more complicated (which I guess it kind of is in a sense) and this was a much more clear and detailed explanation.
Agha Anantya They was just one of his simple fugues... Beautiful, but simple. If you listen to Contrapunctus VII from the Art of Fugue, you will realize that there are fugues you can't imagine...
@@rabbitofknowledge8051 In the final unfinished fugue of Art of Fugue, before he died, Bach used his own name as the subject. B flat, A, C, H (is C in German).
I'm a new to Baroque music and kept coming across references to the fugue. Watching this wonderfully clear explanation and illustration of the art form has helped me enormously to understand. Thank you! (Now I must listen to more of Bach to develop a well-tempered ear!)
this was really helpful! i have to write my own fugue for school and this really helped my understanding. the animation at the end makes everything really easy to see. great video:)
Wow, lucky you get to compose stuff, I'm seriously jealous of you. We only get to play/sing everything they tell us, so creativity isn't really a focus of development...
I am here because I'm reading Cosmos by Carl Sagan and one of the first chapters in the book is called One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue. After reading the meaning of the word fugue, understood that I need a visual explanation. This was quite complex but I appreciated how detailed and visually accessible the explanation was. Thank you!
Dude,,,even though you were a little fast on the jaw,,I understood everything you said,,it opened a portal for me,, I'll keep going over this,to help me write the guitar fugue I always wanted to write for classical guitar,,bless you.
I agree. Although I am a decent musician myself, it is baffling to me that Bach no only would compose these but also improvise then at the organ (using both hands and feet!)
Thank you, Chris! This is very interesting. I think these composers must have been geniuses to put these pieces together. I liked the "dots" showing how the different parts look.
This is an awesome video. A classical musician friend of mine, once tried to explain fugues and the brilliance of Bach in words and as a dilettante I wasn't able to grasp it, but I always yearned to. Thank you!
I have always used the chorus "He trusted in God" from Messiah to teach homophonic vs polyphonic. I think it's a little easier for students to identify a theme even when it's being modified if there are words to listen to.
Omg, do this kind of videos again! Maybe more elementary stuffs like counterpoint? The motivation behind the idea, and how it was refined, what makes a counterpoint 'good' and how it eventually impacts the listener and why the idea lasts to this modern days in composition.
Outstanding explanation. Bravo! I love the visual representation of the piece. It's way more exciting to watch than just an organist sitting at the organ. Again, wonderful video!
I have been a FUGUE FANATIC ever since my piano teacher introduced the WTC Book 1 and 2 when I was in my single digits. It stayed with me Forever.. I studied classical composition at MSM and USC and I use counterpoint in my pieces a LOT.. Its my foundation :)
This video fullfilled its purpose. The piece of Bach which is used in this video changed my perspective of J.S. Bach. Thanks a lot, fugues are marvelous
i'd include the name of the fugue (Little Fugue) in the description, too. for those who want to look it up after the video is over. other than that, great stuff.
Same there,except I don't compose.I would like to compose some in the future,tho The first time I composed music was in 9th grade,which ended up in total failure.At that time I basically ignored all those music theories,composing by random mashups.And then blamed the failure for not being talented enough.
I wish you take this positively. The Pain of watching the beginning of this video turns into Joy at the last couple of minutes. I Love Bach music. So I guess, Thank you 😀...
I wish every song i listened to had that visualizer at the end of the video. I feel like that reached my visually inclined brain so easily. All the words you spoke prior to it suddenly clicked.
AMAZING explanation! Why this channel only has 6K subscribers is beyond me. These videos are among the best musical theory videos out there. Fantastic job Chris!
I've seen the word fugue but I never knew what it meant until today. From what I gather it's basically a concept of expressing or sounding multiple melodies simultaneously. Thanks for the example.
I have to make a presentation on this topic, and this video is so helpful. Thanks for making this, you make it so easy to understand this fairly complex music genre.
Absolutely Breathtaking! At first I thought there was not supposed to be an example. And even though it's computer generated, I really think only Bachʼs genius, by his love of the structure, can totally survive mathematically to the cold of the machine playing.
@@UnderstandingMusic It's quite nice. I think this works with Bach quite well since the contrapunctual work demands for mathematical precision. It would have been not the same for Mozart, Beethoven and beyond where different phrasings become part of the core of the music.
Brilliant! Beautiful! Thank you for de-mystifying this wonderful music. I do wish you much success and hope you make a lot of $$$$$ for your work. The artwork of the dots showing us the different voices in the music.....genius!
Well, may $$$$ find you anyway!! And I'm not sure how I'm going to do it just yet, but I teach English to immigrants and refugees and somehow I will figure out how to introduce them to your work.
So glad to hear that! It is quite challenging to make these videos do justice to the material yet keep them pithy. Thank you so much for commenting, and be sure to subscribe to stay notified of new content. Feel free to suggest new topics to cover as well :)
Hello, there, Chris. Very good stuff. I am an aspiring composer and just finished composing a fugue for string quartet. It's very refreshing to see your simple way of explaining this most intricate and complex musical technique. You won a follower. Keep up the good work.
Chris Wright By the way, what do you think of Beethoven's developments on the fugue? In my very personal opinion, he took the liberty of transforming the episodes into full-fledged developmental sections, as in a sonata-form piece. He sometimes feels like using a hybrid "sonata-fugue". What do you think?
Thank you for this video xD I was trying to explain why I liked "little" fugue in g minor so much to a friend earlier but utterly lacked the terminology to do so. The closest I could come was likening it to a musical round. I'll have to just send them this video haha
Great video! Bach was a true intellectual master, a mathematician of his trade, if you will. Just as he found complex ways to integrate melodies, so do mathematicians find complex ways of combining numbers for various functions.
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I'm a musician and composer but not trained classically. But I know theory. That said, I am not 'moved' by Bach. Sowwy. I just ain't. When I listen, all I hear is tons of complex notes that remind me of computer code. I used to teach a songwriting class and told students there are two ways to critique a song. First, say if the song is "your cup of tea" or not. Then say if the song follows good writing practice. Ok. For me, Bach is not my cup of tea. And he certainly follows good songwriting practices. I will even say incredible practices. But, in the end, you either are moved or not. I'm not. It's hard to say this in a forum where everyone but me thinks Bach is what god listens to. I just offer my contrary taste. I await the slaughter lol. By the way, your explanation was excellent. I learned more in a few minutes watching and listening to your video than reading a book on the subject. Subject... hmmm... where did I hear that word recently?
@@UnderstandingMusic Phantom Fugue from Phantom by Yeston & Kopit (written at the same time as Phantom of the Opera and based off of the same book). Here's a link to the song! ruclips.net/video/x67sKCVhsX8/видео.htmlsi=ckSIELp9t8kpmWR1
Couldn't have said it better myself
Johann Sebastian Bach thanks for composing this piece. Did you know that Mozart, Beethoven and many other child prodigies learned to play piano by studying your works 🔥🙌🏾✨ Gutentag😎
Bist du deutsch ?
HELLO B A C H
I play this fugue for my lady friends, they can't get enough. Basically open the floodgates. Bravo.
Welcome, Bach, to the land of the living.
Every bach piece feels like a riddle you have to solve. The more you listen to it the more things you discover, the more you see the structure.
And that's why I love Bach music!
This is stupidly awesome and complex, I seriously can't wrap my head around how someone could *improvise* one of these.
Your stupidly awesome
He's also following his own harmonic rules and explores new ideas in composition. I think it's completely analogous to a jazz improvisation. It's only a matter of opinion whether the great jazz performers have matched or exceeded Bach's genius.
There are a handful of people today that can do this. Gabriela Montero is a master of improv and can do stuff like this.
@@benidk3556 I think you mean you're stupidly awesome. Your denotes ownership while you're means you are which is what I think you are trying to say. I find it surprising that someone who is watching an instructional video doesn't know the difference between your and you're? I wonder if to, too and two is also a problem or what about there, their and they're? I bet your head is about ready to split.
It's like 4 chords
This is how youtube should be
you make your youtube
This and "we are number one" memes
Johan Delvare Don't forget "We are number one" in the style of a fugue. :)
No. just because you like something, doesn't mean you have to force it on to everyone else. the best thing about youtube is that it's NOT what people think it should be. it's that it is not dictated by what people think are good videos, but are videos where anyone can contribute anything. to declare youtube as a place just for your own interests and no one else's is a bit greedy and selfish don't you think?
however, chris wright does make good informative videos, and i applaud his hard work.
+jigglymabob ......and yet you feel perfectly entitled to declare to the rest of us what is the best thing about RUclips and what it should and shouldn't be.
Pot, kettle, you know the rest.
If Bach was not well-tempered, we could hear him say "Fugue you!" All the time
=)))
Well tempered clavier ehh?
Some people spend their whole lives trying to teach - or understand - something you have managed to explain in 8 minutes and 29 seconds. Well done - and thank you!
1:43 "Of course, just playing a melody over and over would be rather boring [...]"
Well, welcome to the world of minimalism...
Ravel, before the Bolero existed: "Hold my beer!"
Woah, I was looking for the simple definition rather than the structure.. But this video is gold
*I m i t a t i o n*
I'm about to say something dumb, but, like Forest Gump, I am not a smart man.
I don't get classical music. I didn't listen to Wagner in the womb; I wasn't raised on Rachmaninoff; Hayden was not my homeboy. But I am captivated in the last two or so years by this music! I don't know the lingo (except, they are not songs!) and lately, I've become acutely aware that I don't even know how to listen. I mean, I hear the music, but it's like I am only able to hear 70% of it. I CAN tell that there's more there than I am hearing, and it's frustrating to know that there is a whole level of understanding that I'm just not getting. It's like I can SEE the facade of the building. I know there's a wealth of architecture and design behind the obvious, but I have no idea what a door looks like, and no concept of how to begin to open it.
So your stuff is incredibly helpful. I still can't tell where subject begins and answer ends - but the visual stuff really helped me start to see patterns. I still can't listen to more lines than one or maybe two with any degree of competence, so it's very helpful to watch your videos and at least start to know how to articulate exactly what it is I know I can hear. It's almost like this music is a foreign language: I can hear the sounds and know they are rich with meaning, but comprehending them is just not possible. Your videos are like a primer in grammar.
Anyway, long story short, thanks for doing what you do. It's very helpful for people like me who are too dumb to really get what's going on, but not so dumb that they are oblivious to richer meaning available if only they could unlock it.
"Hayden is not my homeboy." Pure gold.
I know this was a loong time ago, but I’ve been studying music for 1.5 years and have been submerged into the world of classical music for 6 months (once I got in I never went back to popular music) and so as a person who felt just like you did, I have to recommend you an amazing book that’s basically an introduction to music, wrote by Aaron Copland, one of the greatest american composers from the XXth century. It’s called *What to listen for in music*
I really recommend it!!
Classical music is heavily correlated with intelligence, Chris Wright. Stick to music and let the scientists talk about science.
1. Racism isnt a fact or argument, dumbass.
2. classical music is one of the most g loaded activities.
3. no it doesnt just "intepret all equally" what a fucking dumb thing to say you want actual facts?
You can tell what race someone is by looking at the shape of their brain (www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(15)00671-5)
You are not only spouting false information but committing fraud when you propagate blatant lies about a topic you think is somehow a grey fog. So one again I will say, stick to music and let scientists talk about science moron.
not an argument.
Great Video! Absolutely Top Drawer! That fugue was a forgotten melody from my childhood! And I love how Bach ends this fugue very perfunctorily as though he got bored. He was such a show-off!
That is prbably because this performance was too rushed, and hurtled at full speed into the ending. A live performance would slow down and give a sense of completion and closure.
The detail and complexity of what is being described in music composition is amazing.
Very interesting and well explained. I've always loved the "Little Fugue."
If u love it so much u should listen to carolina crown 2017 intro
@@kennethschechter352 yes
Short, concise and, thanks to the animation, easy to comprehend, this short video shows how voices are layered to create the architecture of this gorgeous art form. The Little Fugue in Gm is a perfect example to convey this.
Feel free to share with your class. A guy who wants to share for non financial gain. Bless you indeed. Now that is what life is all about. PS. Very well and intelligently put together. Thank you.
Chris Wright Sorry forgot to say. And enjoyable.
Thanks for explaining this, I was basically told a fugue was a round but more complicated (which I guess it kind of is in a sense) and this was a much more clear and detailed explanation.
Exactly. It's a complex round. You got it.
Gazing into the mind of a genius - J.S. Bach. thanks for sharing!
5:00 - the end.....i just realize that bach was a monster
what do you mean
Agha Anantya They was just one of his simple fugues... Beautiful, but simple. If you listen to Contrapunctus VII from the Art of Fugue, you will realize that there are fugues you can't imagine...
smh
@@rabbitofknowledge8051 In the final unfinished fugue of Art of Fugue, before he died, Bach used his own name as the subject. B flat, A, C, H (is C in German).
Now I can finally understand all these dank memes
_That's what 99% of us are here for._
You should have way more subs bro, this is great
I know! Unfortunately not too many people are interested in classical music. SIGH...
like he said this is not only usefull for classical music!
I'm a new to Baroque music and kept coming across references to the fugue. Watching this wonderfully clear explanation and illustration of the art form has helped me enormously to understand. Thank you! (Now I must listen to more of Bach to develop a well-tempered ear!)
Love the visual presentation, you can almost see the diffrent colored points stretching the harmony between them.
this was really helpful! i have to write my own fugue for school and this really helped my understanding. the animation at the end makes everything really easy to see. great video:)
Wow, lucky you get to compose stuff, I'm seriously jealous of you. We only get to play/sing everything they tell us, so creativity isn't really a focus of development...
I am here because I'm reading Cosmos by Carl Sagan and one of the first chapters in the book is called One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue. After reading the meaning of the word fugue, understood that I need a visual explanation. This was quite complex but I appreciated how detailed and visually accessible the explanation was. Thank you!
Dude,,,even though you were a little fast on the jaw,,I understood everything you said,,it opened a portal for me,, I'll keep going over this,to help me write the guitar fugue I always wanted to write for classical guitar,,bless you.
That's absolutely INSANE. You need to eat, drink and breathe music 24/7 probably to make these.
I agree. Although I am a decent musician myself, it is baffling to me that Bach no only would compose these but also improvise then at the organ (using both hands and feet!)
Thank you, Chris! This is very interesting. I think these composers must have been geniuses to put these pieces together. I liked the "dots" showing how the different parts look.
This is an awesome video. A classical musician friend of mine, once tried to explain fugues and the brilliance of Bach in words and as a dilettante I wasn't able to grasp it, but I always yearned to.
Thank you!
I have always used the chorus "He trusted in God" from Messiah to teach homophonic vs polyphonic. I think it's a little easier for students to identify a theme even when it's being modified if there are words to listen to.
I could never understand it if not for this video's explanation. You made a VERY good job, thank you.
Well done! And fun to follow with the graphic. So interesting to “see” and hear music at the same time.
It's the graphic that "made" this for me.
I love how the prelude and fugue I am studying was playing in the background
Omg, do this kind of videos again! Maybe more elementary stuffs like counterpoint? The motivation behind the idea, and how it was refined, what makes a counterpoint 'good' and how it eventually impacts the listener and why the idea lasts to this modern days in composition.
Outstanding explanation. Bravo! I love the visual representation of the piece. It's way more exciting to watch than just an organist sitting at the organ. Again, wonderful video!
I have been a FUGUE FANATIC ever since my piano teacher introduced the WTC Book 1 and 2 when I was in my single digits. It stayed with me Forever.. I studied classical composition at MSM and USC and I use counterpoint in my pieces a LOT.. Its my foundation :)
This video fullfilled its purpose. The piece of Bach which is used in this video changed my perspective of J.S. Bach. Thanks a lot, fugues are marvelous
i'd include the name of the fugue (Little Fugue) in the description, too. for those who want to look it up after the video is over. other than that, great stuff.
Truly amazing. good job you have done here. I just began my musical studies and Bach turns out to be quiet intriguing. thank you for sharing Chris
Oh, "On reflection" and "Little fugue" mentioned in one video? My favourite pieces! I must subscribe now!
This video was fantastic!
I'm self-taught, and I've written some compositions.
I'll learn a lot here on this channel.
I love Bach.
Thank you!
Same there,except I don't compose.I would like to compose some in the future,tho
The first time I composed music was in 9th grade,which ended up in total failure.At that time I basically ignored all those music theories,composing by random mashups.And then blamed the failure for not being talented enough.
Wow I did never thought I would be able to learn to appreciate a fugue. Thanks for this
I wish you take this positively. The Pain of watching the beginning of this video turns into Joy at the last couple of minutes.
I Love Bach music. So I guess, Thank you 😀...
I wish every song i listened to had that visualizer at the end of the video. I feel like that reached my visually inclined brain so easily. All the words you spoke prior to it suddenly clicked.
Beautifully explained! Thank you.
Good explanation, thank you for sharing!
AMAZING explanation! Why this channel only has 6K subscribers is beyond me. These videos are among the best musical theory videos out there. Fantastic job Chris!
This has to be the best video on fugue.
Amazing job man!
It felt like an astronomy class on music.
Welcome to Bach’s world!
Subscribed. 👍🏻
I love the visual illustration of the live song.
This really helped me to write my now 20 fugues!
:3
Bach is the man.
My favorite composer.
By far.
thank you so much this helped a lot for a struggling music theory student!
You've earned a sub, and maybe convinced me to look into a music appreciation class
Mr. Chris Wright, you are a superior teacher.
I've seen the word fugue but I never knew what it meant until today. From what I gather it's basically a concept of expressing or sounding multiple melodies simultaneously. Thanks for the example.
I like how you have a fugue as background music.
The visualization is immensely helpful.
I wish I was clever enough to understand this 😔
Great video! This deserves more views.
Let's spread the word!
Wow - I've never enjoyed Bach before - thanks for a great explanation!
You are exactly the channel I've been looking for forever. Thank you for existing!
Bravo! Bravissimo! Great lesson!
Thank you for the explanation.
I have to make a presentation on this topic, and this video is so helpful. Thanks for making this, you make it so easy to understand this fairly complex music genre.
Thanks!!!
Nicely done - I learned some things! I like the visualization tool.
Thanks for creating this, explained with great clarity and as the man himself says, a perfect use of his brilliant work.
I saw this video in music class today!
Well, I truly learned something new today. And I will never hear a fugue in the same old way anymore. Thank you.
This definitely deepened my appreciation for classical music
Absolutely Breathtaking! At first I thought there was not supposed to be an example. And even though it's computer generated, I really think only Bachʼs genius, by his love of the structure, can totally survive mathematically to the cold of the machine playing.
@@UnderstandingMusic It's quite nice. I think this works with Bach quite well since the contrapunctual work demands for mathematical precision. It would have been not the same for Mozart, Beethoven and beyond where different phrasings become part of the core of the music.
What a cool visual representation, I could watch it all day
Brilliant! Beautiful! Thank you for de-mystifying this wonderful music. I do wish you much success and hope you make a lot of $$$$$ for your work. The artwork of the dots showing us the different voices in the music.....genius!
Well, may $$$$ find you anyway!! And I'm not sure how I'm going to do it just yet, but I teach English to immigrants and refugees and somehow I will figure out how to introduce them to your work.
Brilliant presentation of 4 melodic lines!!
love this one. super helpful for someone who knows basically nothing about music!
Wow, the baroque era was much more interesting than I thought! Very well made video, thank you for making this!
Thank you for.commenting!
Thank you. from a struggling music student.
one of the finest online lessons
Woooooooow that insanely impressive! I will also create a fuge now!
Chris -- THANKS sooooo much for a BIG pile of CLARITY!!!
Thanks for the visual interpretation of little fugue in e minor
Thanks for making this video, it easy to understand, and it's not boring!
The Fugue. Praise to be my master
Bach's little fugue is so amazing it gave me chills I love itttt😭❤️❤️❤️
This is where musical production started
great explanations !! The simulation you create to demonstrate the voices is genius ! Best in the web.
Such a brilliant channel! Thanks for sharing something worthy and interesting.
This video is a cherry popper. Thank you so much.
The visual representations of the music structure helps a lot. Thank you.
What a beautiful piece of music. So complicated yet so catchy and hooky.
thank u so much, i finally understood this properly after watching SEVERAL long videos and just _not quite_ getting it :Þ
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Hello, there, Chris. Very good stuff. I am an aspiring composer and just finished composing a fugue for string quartet. It's very refreshing to see your simple way of explaining this most intricate and complex musical technique. You won a follower. Keep up the good work.
Chris Wright Thank you, very much.
Chris Wright By the way, what do you think of Beethoven's developments on the fugue? In my very personal opinion, he took the liberty of transforming the episodes into full-fledged developmental sections, as in a sonata-form piece. He sometimes feels like using a hybrid "sonata-fugue". What do you think?
The c minor fugue in the background got all of my attention.
Thank you for this video xD I was trying to explain why I liked "little" fugue in g minor so much to a friend earlier but utterly lacked the terminology to do so. The closest I could come was likening it to a musical round. I'll have to just send them this video haha
So basically. Explained by brass-band.
Euphonium: * a melody*
Cornets: * basically the same melody, just a little variations to suit the instrument*
Great video! Bach was a true intellectual master, a mathematician of his trade, if you will. Just as he found complex ways to integrate melodies, so do mathematicians find complex ways of combining numbers for various functions.
Amazing explanation about Fugue ❤
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Very detail explanation for 8.30 minutes video. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting and useful visual presentation of the fugue style of music.
I couldn't praise you more! this was awesome!
I'm a musician and composer but not trained classically. But I know theory. That said, I am not 'moved' by Bach. Sowwy. I just ain't. When I listen, all I hear is tons of complex notes that remind me of computer code. I used to teach a songwriting class and told students there are two ways to critique a song. First, say if the song is "your cup of tea" or not. Then say if the song follows good writing practice. Ok. For me, Bach is not my cup of tea. And he certainly follows good songwriting practices. I will even say incredible practices. But, in the end, you either are moved or not. I'm not. It's hard to say this in a forum where everyone but me thinks Bach is what god listens to. I just offer my contrary taste. I await the slaughter lol.
By the way, your explanation was excellent. I learned more in a few minutes watching and listening to your video than reading a book on the subject. Subject... hmmm... where did I hear that word recently?
Got to perform a fugue style song in a show once… Still one of my absolute favorite songs I’ve ever sung for musical theater
I bet! Which song was it, and from which musical?
@@UnderstandingMusic Phantom Fugue from Phantom by Yeston & Kopit (written at the same time as Phantom of the Opera and based off of the same book). Here's a link to the song! ruclips.net/video/x67sKCVhsX8/видео.htmlsi=ckSIELp9t8kpmWR1