Every once in a while I get a giant traffic bump on an old post, and it's because someone shared it here. It's always a nice surprise. Thanks for reading!
Excellent article and great analysis of the state of the fugue - your insight has motivated me to dig out some Bach from the old piano bench and give things a bit of a bash.
As a musician, stuck in a bit of a rut of late, this kind of thing really helps get the juice flowing again. I’ve spent 15 minutes churning through some fingering and activating old muscle memory I’d forgotten about completely since the piano lesson days, and tonight’s jam session with my band is going to have some new flavours to introduce.
Thank you for the wonderful post. I was humming the Nomai leitmotif from Outer Wilds[0] when two earworms came up simlutaneously: this, and the Little Fugue, and for some reason they comingled in my mind that I couldn't remember which subject was which, so I went googling which was how I found your post.
MomsAVoxell|9 months ago
As a musician, stuck in a bit of a rut of late, this kind of thing really helps get the juice flowing again. I’ve spent 15 minutes churning through some fingering and activating old muscle memory I’d forgotten about completely since the piano lesson days, and tonight’s jam session with my band is going to have some new flavours to introduce.
Good stuff, thank you!
xeonmc|9 months ago
[0] https://youtu.be/zHm-GAuy8CI?si=8iSgsn_D5g0LFovt&t=72