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The Tenth Fugue at the Tenth: Also... What is a Key?
Two fugues in original print are essentially the same: these are both this 10th contrapunctus. This fugue is a double fugue with counterpoint at the …
5 years, 8 months ago
The 9th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: Two Subjects Combined at Two Intervals... Too much?
Back to four voices! Bach begins yet again another fugue with a unique theme. The fugue will become a double fugue with our well known ‘Art of Fugue’…
5 years, 11 months ago
Special Guest: Jack Stratton (Vulfpeck). Down in a big way... with Bach?
This is an interview with Jack Stratton of Vulfpeck. I loved our conversation during the summer of 2020. See some of the topics covered below and sta…
6 years ago
The 8th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: Three Themes, Three voices.
Back to it! Opening a new chapter in The Art of Fugue, this new chapter is one based on compound fugues, that is, our beloved ‘Art of Fugue Subject’ …
6 years ago
How To Detect Bach B.S. (Bad Scholarship)
Ein Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079— such an enigmatic, endlessly fascinating work. Was Bach warning King Frederick about being gay? Was Frederick jealo…
6 years, 1 month ago
Bonus: A Bach Article from 1985
This is the fourth bonus episode.
Two episodes ago, I began with a quote from Aldous Huxley. That quote came from an article written in 1985. The art…
6 years, 2 months ago
Bonus: Listener’s Choice: You asked, I talked.
This is the third bonus episode.
You know how at the end of every episode, Gaby says, "Want to have evan analyze a specific piece of Bach... just for…
6 years, 2 months ago
The Second Canon in The Art of Fugue: A canon functioning at two simultaneous intervals!?
Rather than moving on to the compound fugues, we have a pleasant visit to the second of four canons from "The Art of Fugue" by J.S. Bach:
Canon alla D…
6 years, 3 months ago
The 7th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: One theme at three different speeds?
This is the last fugue of what we could call 'Chapter two' in The Art of Fugue: this is the third and final 'stretto fugue,' and the most complicated…
6 years, 3 months ago
Special Guest: Robert Hill. How does he play Bach?
Guest Interview: Robert Hill, Harpsichordist
I had the privilege of speaking to Robert Hill, one of the foremost harpsichordists alive. Our discussion…
6 years, 3 months ago