Podcasts about art of fugue

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Email overload!This week's quiz: On 13 July I asked you yet another question about France's snap legislative elections.As you know, the left coalition New Popular Front won the most seats, followed by Macron's centre-right alliance, with the far-right National Rally in third place. None of the parties have an absolute majority.There's been something of a “cease-fire” during the Olympic Games, so not much has been done. However, the French constitution sets strict deadlines for when key positions must be filled; one of these is the appointment of chairs for each of the eight standing parliamentary committees. That was your question – what are those eight standing committees, and by which date must the chairs of each committee be decided?The answer is: Finance, foreign affairs, defence, economy, social affairs, culture, sustainable development, and law. The date for deciding the chairs was 20 July. 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The Requiem by Mozart, Schubert's unfinished symphony, the incomplete Beach Boys album Smile... ever since the biblical story of the Tower of Babel we humans have been fascinated by the idea of an unfinished work of art.  The reconstruction by Netherlands Bach Society of the ending of Bach's Art of Fugue gets us very close to what the master himself might have done, had his pen not stopped on the page.  Perhaps the idea of incompleteness itself is a comforting thought -- even Bach, who left us so much high-quality art, never completed this culminating masterwork... is anyone's life's work every truly complete?  Certainly Bach's legacy lives on despite this omission.  Even so, we can't help but wonder what his ending to this piece would have sounded like. Netherlands Bach Society: The Art of Fugue (final movement; reconstruction of the ending by Kees van Houten and Leo van Doeselaar)  

After writing the Goldberg Variations, what was left to write?  Welcome back to A Moment of Bach! We embark on our third season by celebrating the recent release of the Netherlands Bach Society's "Die Kunst der Fuge" -- a brilliant new arrangement of the towering masterwork. The expressive and unusual instrumentation makes this recording unlike any other.   Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080 by the Netherlands Bach Society, arr. Shunske Sato PATREON -- a new opportunity to donate to A Moment of Bach -- always optional, always appreciated!  Stefano Greco lecture including a new theory on the order of the parts of the Art of Fugue

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We'll look at some of the fugues from Bach's “Art of Fugue,” BWV 1080.

So! We've done it: Looked in depth at every fugue, every canon, solved the mysteries, busted the myths, sent the Bach heretics back to whence they came. And now? Let's just enjoy...  Topics covered: The golden sections in other Bach pieces and how this could help us find the golden section here, even in this fugal fragment.  'God the Father' 'God the Spirit' 'God the Son' as three themes. -- THE LAST PAGE ! CLICK HERE to see the 'corrupt' staves on which it would have been impossible to complete such a dense fugue. **Note the staff three from the bottom** -- Koopman playing the B-flat minor, book two -- Follow Evan on Instagram for even more Bachian content: www.instagram.com/WTFBach BECOME A PATRON OF EVAN'S: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach Support us: https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach Suggestions? Want Evan to analyze a specific piece of Bach? Have other questions for Evan about music or anything at all? Write us: bach@wtfbach.com

This is the final fugue of The Art of Fugue, the famous 'unfinished' fugue, number 14. We discuss how one could have understood this fugue to have been unfinished in earlier periods in musical history (it was finished) and what exactly is missing.  THE LAST PAGE ! CLICK HERE to see the 'corrupt' staves on which it would have been impossible to complete such a dense fugue. **Note the staff three from the bottom** Topics covered: B+A+C+H = 14 B-A-C-H as a melody and fugue subject. Where the missing, 4th theme, comes in this quadruple fugue.  The final combination of all four themes and its 'note for note' inversion as mentioned in Bach's obituary of 1754.  -- Follow Evan on Instagram for even more Bachian content: www.instagram.com/WTFBach BECOME A PATRON OF EVAN'S: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach Support us: https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach Suggestions? Want Evan to analyze a specific piece of Bach? Have other questions for Evan about music or anything at all? Write us: bach@wtfbach.com

This is the eighth bonus episode. Was Bach dictating this? Blind? On his deathbed?  Printed as the original conclusion to The Art of Fugue, "Wenn wir im höchsten Nöten sein" was not meant to be part of the work, but was meant to be compensation for the missing fugue. Even with this piece, there are myths surrounding it. Let's debunk. -- Follow me on instagram: @wtfbach   Thank you, THANK YOU, for listening. -evan   Support us: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach

Rather than moving on to the final fugue, we have a brief visit to the final canon of the four canons in "The Art of Fugue." Canon per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu (Canon in augmentation and contrary motion [inversion]).  This form of this canon is very similar in construction to the previous ones, though rather than increasing the interval of imitation, the following voice appears in inversion and moving twice as slowly! A very complicated procedure. -- Evan is every day on his instagram stories uploading the great works of J.S.B: Watch  Check out Bach's 'gift canon' here:  Find a playlist of the music here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ha250UDFktGqZjpt1hk7L?si=fIqZwtTUQJmzB9SYwskeYA Follow Evan on Instagram for even more content about Bach: www.instagram.com/WTFBach Support us, or become a Patron of Evan's and receive his very private inner thoughts on a regular basis: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach

Question: If a piece of music is perfect both on its head and also its feet, which one is the inversion? In the previous fugue, fugue twelve, we saw Bach took four voices, a turned everything upside down: 1234 became 4321 and what went up came crashing down. Now, fugue 13 is again a 'mirror' fugue... or is it? This thirteenth fugue is in three voices and uses a technique almost identical to it's sister fugue, number 12, but is still more complicated.  Topics Covered: Which comes first in number 13, the rectus or the inversus?  -- DUE TO PROBLEMS WITH INSTAGRAM (they think Bach's music is 'Branded Content' - yikes. Public domain y'all) I AM MOVING STREAMS TO TWITCH.TV/WTF_BACH PLEASE FOLLOW ME THERE Find a selected playlist of the music found and discussed in this podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ha250UDFktGqZjpt1hk7L?si=fIqZwtTUQJmzB9SYwskeYA ... have you seen: http://bachchurch.com ???   Support us! Why not join Evan's Patreon, where he unique Bach-related insights on a weekly basis: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach    Write us: bach@wtfbach.com

Question: If a piece of music is perfect both on its head and also its feet, which one is the inversion?   A few important things I neglected to mention in the 11th counterpoint, but where to go after that 11th fugue anyhow? Into the mirror… Look into *CLICK* the mirror!  Bach, not satisfied with creating a triple fugue whose subjects were the same three subjects of the previous triple fugue- inverted- now pens a four-voice fugue where the entire texture will be inverted to create a new composition altogether. It's like writing two fugues at once. This can be done with any piece of music, but only Bach could make such a complicated composition sound like beautiful and convincing music both right-side-up and upside-down.     -- Follow Evan on Instagram for even more Bachian content: www.instagram.com/WTFBach   Find a selected playlist of the music found and discussed in this podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ha250UDFktGqZjpt1hk7L?si=fIqZwtTUQJmzB9SYwskeYA ... have you seen: http://bachchurch.com ???   Support us! Did you enjoy the reading from Evan's practice diary? Why not join his Patreon, where he shares similar insights on weekly basis: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach    Write us: bach@wtfbach.com

Rather than moving on to the twelfth fugue, we have a brief visit to the third of four canons from "The Art of Fugue" by J.S. Bach: Canon alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quina (Canon at the twelfth in counterpoint at the fifth).  This canon is very similar in construction to the previous canon, though at the larger interval of the 12th.  -- Evan is now mid-49 days of toccatas every day on his instagram stories: Watch  Check out Bach's 'gift canon' here:  Find a playlist of the music here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ha250UDFktGqZjpt1hk7L?si=fIqZwtTUQJmzB9SYwskeYA Follow Evan on Instagram for even more content about Bach: www.instagram.com/WTFBach Support us: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach  

The closing of our chapter on compound fugues, contrapunctus eleven, a powerful, complicated, and long fugue. Two expositions of the first theme? One in inversion? And wait, this is a triple fugue where all themes come in inversion and… also not in inversion? Holy B***!    Topics covered: The original order of the fugues found in P 200 (the autograph score). The 11th fugue as a possible early finale to The Art of Fugue.  Glenn Gould's version of this fugue.  Could there be an ‘anti-golden section' in this one? -- Follow Evan on Instagram for even more Bachian content: www.instagram.com/WTFBach Find a selected playlist of the music found and discussed in this podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ha250UDFktGqZjpt1hk7L?si=fIqZwtTUQJmzB9SYwskeYA Support us! https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach Suggestions? Want Evan to analyze a specific piece of Bach? Have other questions for Evan about music or anything at all? ... p.s. ... have you seen: http://bachchurch.com ??? Write us: bach@wtfbach.com

Back to four voices! Bach begins yet again another fugue with a unique theme. The fugue will become a double fugue with our well known ‘Art of Fugue' theme. The counterpoint then begins to appear in two ways: either on the same note or at different notes which are related to the perfect 5th, or 12th, as the title of this fugue (Alla Duodecima) suggests. Not only is this double counterpoint, but double counterpoint at ...double the intervalic possibilities...?   Bach Vision Test (Vulfpeck): https://youtu.be/vJfiOuDdetg -- Find a playlist of the music here. The Art of Fugue arranged for Instagram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUnOx6hfBE Follow Evan on Instagram for even more content about Bach: www.instagram.com/WTFBach -- Support us: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach   Suggestions? Want Evan to analyze a specific piece of Bach? Have other questions for Evan about music or anything at all? Write us: bach@wtfbach.com

JS Bach’s (1685-1750) brilliant masterwork The Art of Fugue, is adaptable to many different instruments, and even today, more than 300 years after it was written, remains fresh, interesting and astonishing in its complexity. Photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Johann_Sebastian_Bach.jpg Attribution: Elias Gottlob Haussmann / Public domain

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Back to it! Opening a new chapter in The Art of Fugue, this new chapter is one based on compound fugues, that is, our beloved ‘Art of Fugue Subject' will now began to be combined with other new and unique themes.    Instead of going from a ‘simple' to a double fugue, Bach drops a voice (all previous fugues were in 4 voices) and composes immediately a triple fugue for three voices. Like perfectly symmetrical juggling, this fugue is filled with beauty and amazing structural points.    -- Find a playlist of the music here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ha250UDFktGqZjpt1hk7L?si=fIqZwtTUQJmzB9SYwskeYA The Art of Fugue arranged for Instagram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUnOx6hfBE Follow Evan on Instagram for even more content about Bach: www.instagram.com/WTFBach Support us: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach   Suggestions? Want Evan to analyze a specific piece of Bach? Have other questions for Evan about music or anything at all? Write us: bach@wtfbach.com

Rather than moving on to the compound fugues, we have a pleasant visit to the second of four canons from "The Art of Fugue" by J.S. Bach: Canon alla Decima in contrapunto alla Terza (Canon at the Tenth in counterpoint at the Third) Topics covered: Aldous Huxley said that Bach is a manifestation of God? How does this second canon differ from the previous canon? What is a 'Cadenza'? So, you can play a canon with a delay pedal, but to what extent?  Check out a picture of Bach's 'gift canon' here:  NEXT EPISODE IS LISTENER'S CHOICE: DM EVAN WHAT PIECES YOU WANT TO HEAR Find a playlist of the music here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ha250UDFktGqZjpt1hk7L?si=fIqZwtTUQJmzB9SYwskeYA Follow Evan on Instagram for even more content about Bach: www.instagram.com/WTFBach Support us: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach  

This is the last fugue of what we could call 'Chapter two' in The Art of Fugue: this is the third and final 'stretto fugue,' and the most complicated. Whereas in the previous episodes I mentioned in which direction subjects enter, inverted or not, or at which beat they overlap, in this episode, I disregard all of that in favor of trying to hear the three different speeds in multiple voices at once. I also ask the listener to imagine what this could sound like before the music is played. This is related to a technique called 'Audiation' which eventually will deserve special mention. -- Find a playlist of the music here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ha250UDFktGqZjpt1hk7L?si=fIqZwtTUQJmzB9SYwskeYA The Art of Fugue arranged for Instagram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUnOx6hfBE Follow Evan on Instagram for even more content about Bach: www.instagram.com/WTFBach Support us: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach   Suggestions? Want Evan to analyze a specific piece of Bach? Have other questions for Evan about music or anything at all? Write us: bach@wtfbach.com

The second ‘stretto' fugue: “Contrapunctus 6, in the French Style” now gives us the theme flying at two different speeds in both directions. We see the theme overlapped, coming both inverted and ‘rectus', and now at 1x AND 2x speeds! Where will Bach go from here?! Topics covered: What does it mean to play in the ‘French style?' What does ‘diminution' mean? Pianists mentioned: Zoltán Kocsis, Tatiana Nikolayeva, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Harpsichordists (organists) mentioned: Helmut Walcha, Davitt Moroney, Robert Hill, Gustav Leonhardt, Isolde Ahlgrimm,   Follow Evan on Instagram for even more content about Bach: www.instagram.com/WTFBach -- Find a playlist of the music here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ha250UDFktGqZjpt1hk7L?si=fIqZwtTUQJmzB9SYwskeYA   Support us: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach -- Suggestions? Want Evan to analyze a specific piece of Bach? Have other questions for Evan about music or anything at all? Write us: bach@wtfbach.com

Here we are on a new chapter! The stretto fugues have begun. We uncover the extensive use of stretto at various 'lengths:' 12 beats, 6 beats, 4 beats, 2 beats even down to a single beat. Entrances are now flying both upside down and right-side up without warning.  Topics covered: Bach's cousin taught a 12-year old prince about fugues? 'Fleshing out' our Art of Fugue theme, Canons within fugues, The Art of Fugue orchestrated  E.H. Gombrich's 'Little History of the World' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_History_of_the_World The Art of Fugue arranged for Instagram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUnOx6hfBE -- Find a playlist of the music here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ha250UDFktGqZjpt1hk7L?si=fIqZwtTUQJmzB9SYwskeYA Follow Evan on Instagram for even more content about Bach: www.instagram.com/WTFBach Support us: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach   Suggestions? Want Evan to analyze a specific piece of Bach? Have other questions for Evan about music or anything at all? Write us: bach@wtfbach.com

Rather than moving on to the fifth fugue, we have a brief visit to the first of four canons from "The Art of Fugue" by J.S. Bach: Canon in Hypodiapason (Canon at the octave).  Topics covered: What is an octave? Who is 'The Great One'? Why do musicians love Bach so? So... you can play a canon with a delay pedal?   Find a playlist of the music here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ha250UDFktGqZjpt1hk7L?si=fIqZwtTUQJmzB9SYwskeYA Follow Evan on Instagram for even more content about Bach: www.instagram.com/WTFBach Support us: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach   Suggestions? Want Evan to analyze a specific piece of Bach? Have other questions for Evan about music or anything at all? Write us: bach@wtfbach.com

The final piece in the first 'quartet' of fugues from "The Art of Fugue" by J.S. Bach: Contrapunctus 4. With this episode we have covered all of the 'simple fugues' in this sprawling work.  Topics covered: A blind organist from Leipzig... Helmut who? The official Latin terms for the first two entering voices. A fugue made entirely of a subject and a two-note motif? What on earth is a golden section and how does one go about finding one?  Find a playlist of the music here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ha250UDFktGqZjpt1hk7L?si=fIqZwtTUQJmzB9SYwskeYA Follow Evan on Instagram for even more content about Bach: www.instagram.com/WTFBach Support us: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach   Suggestions? Want Evan to analyze a specific piece of Bach? Have other questions for Evan about music or anything at all? Write us: bach@wtfbach.com

We discuss the second and third fugues from "The Art of Fugue" by J.S. Bach. We hear them played on a clavichord and a piano, then both arranged electronically with some new insights.  Topics covered: How quiet is a clavichord? So... what's the vibe in general of The Art of Fugue? Countersubjects, inverted entrances, and the subject beginning to change.  Find a playlist of the music here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ha250UDFktGqZjpt1hk7L?si=fIqZwtTUQJmzB9SYwskeYA Support us: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach   Suggestions? Want Evan to analyze a specific piece of Bach? Have other questions for Evan about music or anything at all? Write us: bach@wtfbach.com

We discuss the first fugue from "The Art of Fugue" by J.S. Bach. We hear it played first on a harpsichord, then on a piano with 'voice-over analysis' then by a computer with the voices panned hard left/right. Topics covered: How does a harpsichord work?, Must one bring out, or even hear every entrance of the subject?, What about authenticity vs. modern approaches to Bach?, Was Evan really called Slim-E?  Find a playlist of the music here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ha250UDFktGqZjpt1hk7L?si=fIqZwtTUQJmzB9SYwskeYA And the 16 year-old Evan Shinners' fugue is found here: https://soundcloud.com/emigrationposse/14-fuga Support us: https://www.patreon.com/wtfbach https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https://venmo.com/wtfbach https://cash.app/$wtfbach   Suggestions? Want Evan to analyze a specific piece of Bach? Have other questions for Evan about music or anything at all? Write us: bach@wtfbach.com

On the cover CD of the November issue of BBC Music Magazine, we present JS Bach's The Art of Fugue, arranged and played by Mahan Esfahani, with the help of instrumentalists from the Academy of Ancient Music. In this podcast, deputy editor Jeremy Pound and editorial assistant Elinor Cooper introduce the work, complete with extracts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this second episode, we continue to explore the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his place as a seminal figure in the canon of western music. We look at some readings that help us focus on Bach as situated between the medieval world view and the emerging realities of individualism and discuss why his music is so influential and what it may have to say to us today.

In this second episode, we continue to explore the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his place as a seminal figure in the canon of western music. We look at some readings that help us focus on Bach as situated between the medieval world view and the emerging realities of individualism and discuss why his music is so influential and what it may have to say to us today.

Lucie Skeaping takes expert advice from Simon Heighes to explore the background, purpose and music of JS Bach's last great masterpiece - The Art of Fugue. At the end of his life Johann Sebastian Bach set out to create a great summary of his thoughts and ideas about an intellectual musical form he'd made very much his own - the fugue. The result is the "Art of Fugue" which he left unfinished at his death - or did he? How should we regard this work? Was it intended for performance and if so, how? Who was it written for? Lucie pulls together various recordings of the work and, in conversation with Bach expert Simon Heighes, unpicks some of the thinking behind this extraordinary composition.

In our inaugural episode Bach is our Pilot we explore the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his place as a seminal figure in the canon of western music.

In our inaugural episode Bach is our Pilot we explore the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his place as a seminal figure in the canon of western music.

Although the field of ‘art and science' – the fusion of art, science and technology – has existed for at least two decades, its validity and value are still questioned, often very forcefully, by both the artistic and scientific communities. This talk will examine some of the arguments both for and against art and science, drawing on material from Tesla, the open discussion forum on art and science at UCL Computer Science Department, and Fugue, Tesla's first project. Perhaps some of the questions will be answered; however, it is equally likely that some new ones will be asked.