Most of those are pretty bad. It takes a master to make an nigh-unfugueable theme into a fugue. As an example, listen to JS Bach's F minor fugue from WTC1. posted by Philosopher Dirtbike at 3:46 AM on May 4, 2011
When Glen Gould wrote "So you want to write a fugue" it was given away as a free record (remember records?) made of cardboard as an insert in some magazine whose name I no longer remember and I would play it over and over feeling very sophisticated until my father (an abstract expressionist painter who knew nothing about music but who was very concerned with what was art and what was not) told me it was junk and made me feel miserable. posted by Obscure Reference at 4:37 AM on May 4, 2011 [2 favorites]
If anyone has ever seen similar tutorials, examples, or general hand-holding about how to write sonata-allegro form I'd be very grateful for some linkies. TIA!
> Unless he had to compose a fugue upon a theme presented by a king.
The outcome was some of the strangest sounding fugues ever. (Of course it was a pretty dam strange sounding subject to begin with.) posted by jfuller at 6:58 AM on May 4, 2011
When I saw the Lady Gaga fugue yesterday, I started thinking about how I might make a similar thread in order to introduce it - but then work intervened. Instead, I'll just pop in here to mention my favorite piece using fugal/canonical structure!
Hindemith's Symphony in B Flat is not 1, not 2, but 3 movements of fugal amusement. Here's the Tokyo Kosei Wind Ensemble playing the piece. The 3rd movement is my favorite.
I loved that, especially the Dragnet one, with the scrolling bar graph. Are there other places to see music visually delineated like that? posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 8:25 AM on May 4, 2011
That Twinkle, Twinkle video was wonderful. Reminds me of this scene from Amadeus. posted by zarq at 9:20 AM on May 4, 2011
My MandyDance went the opposite direction, from an exercise in fugue-writing to... whatever it is now. But check out the section at 1:13, for example. posted by Wolfdog at 10:10 AM on May 4, 2011
Are there other places to see music visually delineated like that?
Have you seen the San Francisco Symphony's Keeping Score project? It's tied in with shows on PBS. posted by phliar at 10:35 AM on May 4, 2011
>Nokia Ringtone
Here's my personal favorite, which was my boyfriend's ringtone for waaay too long:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nVemsYiUQE&feature=related posted by cyberdad at 10:53 AM on May 4, 2011
Are there other places to see music visually delineated like that?
posted by bardic at 3:31 AM on May 4, 2011 [1 favorite]