Making a Bach fugue out of a Covid crisis
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This is an incredibly clever piece of fugue writing on the theme ‘COVID19’ by a Greek composer based in Amsterdam.
His name is Nicholas Papadimitriou.
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Bravo!
totally wonderful and inventive.
LOVE IT!
A beautiful fugue, but the blurb reminds me of Christoph von Dohnanyi’s quip that when he and the Cleveland Orchestra would play a great concert, George Szell would get the good review. This isn’t a “Bach fugue;” it’s a Papadimitriou fugue.
This catchy fugue theme will surely go viral, even long after the pandemic.
This catchy fugue theme will surely go viral, even long after the end of the pandemic.
Brilliant! I wish I’d payed more attention in harmony and counterpoint classes now.
I did by the way, listen at 2metres distance from the speaker.
Well, there’s something no one needs or wants.
Impressive! I love fugues and this is really great.
Ouch; starts with a fully diminished seventh chord and ends with the flat nine.
Oops, my mind jumped to bass clef. It ends on the sixth degree of the scale, if you’re starting from the Eb – not so bad.
Channeling Johann Fux are we?
Bravo, and thanks for ending in the major!
I’m trying to imagine any of our many contemporary composers even being able to write a fugue…
Too much episode, not enough theme. For a contemporary composer who really can do the counterpoint, see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_G-FBSf1UI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZxCAqCUgug
It sounds like something Max Reger wrote after one of his drinking bouts.
Wow!!!!! I was prepared for a clever parlour trick, and instead found myself awed by real music. That was impressive, to say the least.
We have lots of memories of “greek musicians”, like “rip-off Correntzis”.
Now all you need to do to get famous is not to pretend to conduct, but pretend to compose for a fake epidemic supported by pseudo “scientists”, then post it online to get wall to wall applause!
The results are in plain view for you to see.
NON FAKE house arrest, and NON FAKE state sponsored violence.
You get what you pay for, coming to a cinema near you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ5qh-jP6sA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyQXe73IW9g
Of course none of you artists and musicians are interested in truth and justice are you?
Isn’t that what art is supposed to do?
Where is your voice to speak up for such people?
I bet all you will do here is JEER, criticise me for showing it to you, and come out with high sounding platitudes.
Yes, it’s all very difficult isn’t it?
You are truly a jerk. Go find a bridge to live under, like the proper troll you are.
You’ve not been taking your pills again, have you ?
You were stupid enough not to watch the you tube links I sent.
As for the “pills” I suggest you go and buy some for treating BRAINWASHING.
We are living in Orwell’s dystopia.
I will post it again.
It is titled “Police Arrest Mother, Tear Screaming Child From Her Arms”
This is the police state you are in full agreement with.
I would say her majesty should be on TV with a few answers, not BS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ5qh-jP6sA
LIKE IT and admit you are wrong?
Bojo has invented the same rubbish.
Confinement is over, now starts the rebellion
One of the great pleasures of Slipped Disc is the lively and sometimes even impassioned exchanges conducted without rancour, although sometimes we disagree profoundly. The absence of trolling and fanatics is refreshing. Could we keep it that way please?
As a quick study course in musicians’ social and political awareness for you Mr/Ms Engineer could I suggest the following:
Beethoven..Fidelio; Tchaikovsky… 6th Symphony; Berg…Wozzeck; Britten…War Requiem; Tippett…Child of Our Time.
There will be many other examples. Now go away and have a listen and reconsider please.
Don’t worry – she is a suppressed feminist in a small Welsh village and has been locked-up by her husband who wants to obey the government instructions.
Wow I thought covid was dull.
It is dull when people behave as sheep. (or so it appears 99% on here), when the UK and France introduce a POLICE STATE, lie to you, introduce it all within weeks then claim we cannot go back for months, years, or who cares what any more???
Give Mr PLOD 1% more power and he will abuse it to the power of the other 99%.
A former senior judge Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, Lord Sumption, has said exactly the same.
“Lord Sumption warned that police had no legal power to enforce “ministers’ wishes” and that the public should not be “resigning their liberty” to over-zealous citizens in uniform.”
All I see on here is childish prattle confirming “THE GOVERNMENT MUST BE RIGHT” and every single criticism on here gets total sheeple style ‘thumbs down”.
Artists and musicians are supposed to use their brains, whereas right now most here appear to have gone through something akin to Joseph Hassid.
(An experimental front lobal lobotomy carried out by a quack, pretending to be a scientist resulting in death from sepsis).
Indeed the cure was far worse than the illness.
We don’t have death from Sepsis, we will have 1000s of deaths, none of them fictitious or computer modelled from SUICIDE, while 1000s have to go to food banks just to eat.
Italy “a chamber of lies”!
25000 deaths, now proven 96.3% had pre existing severe medical conditions. 65% died from other diseases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9wuFazgpc4&feature=youtu.be
Work it out for yourself.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says
All you have to lose is your mental chains!
My fly on the wall of the neighbours informs me that the police have been at the door 2 times because of screams which disturbed the quiet neighbourhood.
“96.3% had pre existing severe medical conditions”
Er…so what. Only a lunatic would deny that Covid-19 was a contributory factor. Of course it is difficult to understand the exact extent to which Covid-19 is causing deaths. But the UK has reported over 50,000 excess deaths during the last two months, with the clear implication they were “caused” by Covid-19 and would not have died otherwise.
Another strange headline. Why making a ‘Bach Fugue’ rather than ‘Fugue’ ?
And which Bach ?
I am surprised that no one has pointed out the resemblance between this subject and the TEMA of the Ricercare in Bach’s The Musical Offering. They are both in c minor and start with the same intervallic sequence. This unless I am mistaken (my apologies) or have fallen victim to a vacuous musical trope. Be well.
If the resemblance is valid, then we are have probably encountered empirical evidence that art does imitate nature.
Fantastic!
There must be a cracking good row in there somewhere. Perhaps in the genetic code?
Wonderful fugue!
Bravo! Clever theme, wonderful fugue!
Oh, now the organ version is also available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MXwLI7wlNA
Fantastisch! complimenten aan de componist. Is de bladmuziek ook beschikbaar ?