Comments on: Fugue States, YouTube Edition

Fugue States, YouTube Edition

maryh — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:03:23 -0800

Britney is not known for her fugues. But you- do you think you got the clever to write a fugue? Get Bach, JoJo!

By: dhammond

dhammond — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:26:02 -0800

Nice.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:36:13 -0800

Hey, dhammond took the word right outta my mouth!

By: Lucie

Lucie — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:36:38 -0800

She's more known for her fugs than fugues.

By: amyms

amyms — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:36:55 -0800

It must have been while you were kissing him.

By: amyms

amyms — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:37:23 -0800

Oops, my reply doesn't make sense now, sorry.

By: Poolio

Poolio — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:40:49 -0800

Never be clever for the sake of being clever, for the sake of showing off. MetaFilter: .

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:48:08 -0800

Oops, my reply doesn't make sense now, sorry. Oops, you did it again. But I guess the truth about me and dhammond had to come out eventually. But it's only kisses. I haven't been fugueing him.

By: Avenger

Avenger — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:50:55 -0800

What if I fugue? I'm not cool with this, man!!

By: ludwig_van

ludwig_van — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:54:44 -0800

"...in an extremely low register, because I think it's funnier that way." Woohoo for this post. Fugues are hard.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:55:07 -0800

One Time.

By: Brittanie

Brittanie — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:59:22 -0800

Two Times.

By: Poolio

Poolio — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:03:26 -0800

Three times a lady.

By: Kadin2048

Kadin2048 — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:06:08 -0800

I read that three times before realizing the word wasn't "fungus."

By: maryh

maryh — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:13:22 -0800

Fee tines a mady...

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:21:49 -0800

God damn Poolio. You spoilt my joke.

By: Bistle

Bistle — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:35:50 -0800

By: Bistle

Bistle — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:36:34 -0800

whoops...that's the Geographical fugue above this

By: Poolio

Poolio — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:35:27 -0800

God damn Poolio. You spoilt my joke. I've been known to block some lulz.

By: zardoz

zardoz — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:53:17 -0800

Great post. I've been recommending this movie for years to anyone who'll listen. If it's to be believed, Gould was a deeply weird guy. And the direction is outstanding.

By: public

public — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:11:29 -0800

Woohoo for this post. Fugues are hard. So is flapjax.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:22:57 -0800

So is flapjax. What, and dhammond isn't? You sayin' I ain't sexy?

By: gwint

gwint — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:01:12 -0800

Double (fugue)

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:44:32 -0800

My old professor and I tried to write a fugue around the theme to the Smurfs. It was a poor fugue subject.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:48:46 -0800

Surprisingly well done.

By: piratebowling

piratebowling — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:50:12 -0800

I want to that Daniel Pi's internet babies.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:16:14 -0800

This could be a MEfiMu topic.

By: MNDZ

MNDZ — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:17:10 -0800

I had to write a fugue for a class in 2002. I incorporated the head of straight no chaser, which I thought was supercool. I got an F though, I broke the rules.

By: Skorgu

Skorgu — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:42:06 -0800

So glad someone made an FPP of this.

By: LooseFilter

LooseFilter — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:29:24 -0800

My counterpoint teacher actually used that Gould fugue to introduce us to the structure and basic techniques of a fugue--it worked quite well. If it's to be believed, Gould was a deeply weird guy. It is to be believed. He was an odd duck. My favorite thing about Gould is that, if you listen to some of his Bach recordings closely, you can hear him sort of absent-mindedly half-singing a voice of counterpoint that isn't playing, and that never enters--it seems like, as he played Bach, he'd sometimes just add voices in his imagination, to go along with what he was playing. Cool post.

By: ob

ob — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:33:47 -0800

The first post proves that one can make a fugue out of almost anything if you try hard enough. I remember when I was a kid trying to write a fugue using the theme of an Iron Maiden song (I forget which song now but I do remember that it did sound quite Bachian...) The Glenn Gould video is a different kettle of fish entirely. The reference to the Brandenburg Concertos in the first string quartet entry was great, but it's the second quartet entry with the reference to the Meistersingers overture, that was particularly clever, seeing as near the end of the overture Wagner presents all his themes contrapuntally (i.e. simultaneously) in a deliberate attempt (and a successful one at that) to prove that he could do this (I believe if memory serves that the music critic Hanslick had previously criticized Wagner for not being contrapuntal enough). The singers in Gould's fugue have just warned about not being too clever just before the Wagner is quoted. I derived quite a lot of geek pleasure from this...

By: Sticherbeast

Sticherbeast — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:57:55 -0800

What I find really weird is that a friend of mine, also an NYU film student, did a version of Oops! I Did It Again as a barbershop quartet (with himself doing all the vocals) back in 2000. It was actually pretty good. Apparently the song inspires the greatest in young artists.

By: mragreeable

mragreeable — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:01:13 -0800

A fugue by the lads from Abba. (Towards the end it is, anyways.)

By: unclemonty

unclemonty — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:48:45 -0800

Damn it. Now I have the urge to write a fugue!