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Special Guest: Christoph Wolff. What else can we learn about Bach?
Guest Interview: Christoph Wolff, Former Head of the Bach Archive in Leipzig.
I had the privilege of speaking to Christoph Wolff, certainly the most …
4 years, 11 months ago
Bonus: Dictated in Blindness on his Deathbed? The Original Printed Conclusion to The Art of Fugue?
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 i…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Fourth Canon in The Art of Fugue: Upside Down, Slowed Down... How Much More Down?
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 …
5 years ago
Bonus: The 13th Contrapunctus - in another way (for TWO harpsichords!)
This is the seventh bonus episode.
Among the errors in the assembly of the first printing of The Art of Fugue was the inclusion of an arrangement of f…
5 years, 2 months ago
The 13th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: also fugue this mirror a is?
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 B…
5 years, 3 months ago
Special Guest: Chris Thile. Man in the Mirror (Fugue)
This is an interview with mandolinist/composer/singer Chris Thile. Our conversation on May 14, 2021 spanned many diverse topics from how he felt abou…
5 years, 4 months ago
The 12th Fugue in The Art of Fugue|euguF fo trA ehT ni euguF ht21 ehT?
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 mentio…
5 years, 4 months ago
The Third Canon in The Art of Fugue: Counterpoint at the fifth? Or just a bunch of parallel fifths?
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 Duodeci…
5 years, 6 months ago
Bonus: I Uploaded a Bach Album as an NFT
I don't know if you are already hip to it, or if you're just catching on, but it seems like releasing music as 'NFTs' could be in our futures. I want…
5 years, 7 months ago
The 11th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: A Triple Fugue &... A Possible Anti-Golden-Section?
The closing of our chapter on compound fugues, contrapunctus eleven, a powerful, complicated, and long fugue. Two expositions of the first theme? One…
5 years, 7 months ago