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  1. Identifying Classical Music
    I listened to four hours of Bach preludes and fugues and did not hear the one I played in a piano recital decades ago. I don't remember the key but I've tried to attach sheet music for the theme transcribed to A minor. Let me know if you can't see it. Any help appreciated!
  2. Classical Music Discussion
    There are plenty that I know of, which I shall let others mention as a way of discussion and conglomerating several such Fugues into one post, but I want to share what I think beats them all, from Jan Dismas Zelenka's Missa Omnium Sanctorum, ZWV 21 - a chromatic leaping up and down subject that...
  3. Today's Composers
    Hello everyone! I finished composing a fugue for brass trio as a continuation to the canon that I posted last month, since I kept feeling that the canon was more of an introduction to something than a complete piece by itself. The fugue starts at 1:45. It starts in Gminor but finishes in Gmajor...
  4. Identifying Classical Music
    Hello! I need to now the composer and the name of the piano piece. probably it's Bach and some fugue, still we're not able to find it thank you for any help!
  5. Classical Music Discussion
    It is difficult to find fugues by Vivaldi because, unlike Bach and many other composers, he never named any discovered works after the form itself; instead, they have been thrown into various larger works, such as concerti and sonatas. Thus, I have taken it upon myself to provide a list for...
  6. Classical Music Discussion
    I made the video linked below about fugues mainly for use in my own music appreciation courses, but after being laid off and the covid pandemic I have decided to try to grow my yt channel because I love making videos about classical music and music appreciation (and I can really use the side...
  7. Today's Composers
    I'm mostly working on my second sonata (in a rather "modern" style), but I'm taking a short break. This is a little piece in the tradition of 19th century fugues, with harmonies and textures a bit more adventurous than Baroque ones. You may recognize the subject from memes :out: Score...
  8. Classical Music Discussion
    EDIT: I tried to get the YouTube videos to playback from the Kyrie and String Quartet fourth movement, respectively, but I couldn't figure it out. The Kyrie movement begins at 5:28 in the first video, and the fourth movement of the String Quartet begins at 21:36. So this morning I went for a...
  9. Today's Composers
    Here is the flat.io link for the score. If this link doesn't work try listening to just the audio. I don't mind harsh criticism, if its garbage tell me its garbage.
  10. Today's Composers
    Hey guys! I would like to share with you the piece I wrote recently. It's the last fugue of a 3-part cycle of fugues for this trio. The first fugue was composed pretty much in Bach's style, the second one can be found HERE, and here is the third one :) My goal was to experiment with the...
  11. Classical Music Discussion
    Hi all, long time lurker here. Decided to make an account as I continue down the classical rabbit hole. I've always appreciated classical and been aware of and listened to the 'greatest hits' (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Beethoven's 9th, New World Symphony etc) but Beethoven is the first composer...
  12. Strings
    This is my new video/arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue (BWV 903) hope you will enjoy
  13. Today's Composers
    Here's a double fugue for piano, I nicknamed the Leviathan. In three minutes almost every contrapuntal technique is utilized; inversion, retrograde, retrograde inversion, theme augmentation, invertible counterpoint, stretto... But honestly none of that fancy stuff really matters, my main goal...
  14. Solo & Chamber Music
    Hello everybody! As I've already said in another post, and this night I encountered a cheerful piece that struck my facial musculature activating one levator anguli oris (not two, just one), both orbicularis oculi and both zygomaticus minor; probably you'll ask "and so? why should it be a...
  15. Music Theory
    I'm actually studying and analyzing this wonderful work (Beethoven's Eb symphony) and i have a theory cuestion about the first short fugue that appears in the last movement, just after the exposition of the theme. Is it a four-voice or a five,six,seven-voice fugue? The exposition has five...
  16. Classical Music Discussion Polls
    Igor Stravinsky said of Beethoven's Grosse Fugue: "[it is] an absolutely contemporary piece of music that will be contemporary forever." Although it was an expansion of the Baroque grand fugue, to many unsuspecting listeners especially if listened to on its own, it may sound like a very...
  17. Classical Music Discussion
    Let's face it, fugue writing can sometimes be an academic and dry subject. It takes real skill to write a fugue that has emotional power and weight. What are some of the most moving fugues you know? Some examples of what I'm talking about: Beethoven - Große Fuge, op. 133 Max Reger - Fantasia...
  18. Classical Music Discussion
    Are there any recordings of Glenn Gould playing Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543? TY, -Mark
  19. Classical Music Discussion
    There's always a lot of talk on here about the difficulty of modern and contemporary music. But the 20th and 21st century have no monopoly on difficulty. What works from centuries past have you found inscrutable? Did you eventually come around to any of them? I'll start with a few: -Mahler's...
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