Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus 2 (Analysis)

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TRO analyses the second fugue in J.S.Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge, looking at form, harmony, and contrapuntal technique.
With special thanks to Kimiko Ishizaka for making her incredible recordings public domain. For more on her work, including original compositions, please check out her website here: kimiko-piano.c...
BIBLIOGRAPHY/FURTHER READING AND WATCHING:
Anson-cartwright, M. (2008) Elision and the Embellished Final Cadence in J. S. Bach's Preludes. In: Music Analysis. Available at: onlinelibrary....
Haussmann, Elias Gottlob. Bach image used at the end of the video: [www.jsbach.net/...] Public Domain, [commons.wikime...], from [en.wikipedia.o...]
Kimiko Ishizaka's website, with headshots, recordings and other information: kimiko-piano.c...
Mondrup, C. (2018) Edition of The Art of Fugue used for this video, based on an edition by Werner Icking: ks.imslp.info/f...
OpenGoldberg - Wonderful channel that has public domain performances by Kimiko Ishizaka and the Stephen Malinowski animations: • J.S. Bach, Art of Fugu...
Prout, E. (1892) Fugal Analysis: A Companion to Fugue; Being a Collection of Fugues of Various Styles Put into Score and Analyzed. London: Augener
Prout, E. (1891) Fugue. London: Augener
Prout, E. (1891) Double Counterpoint and Canon. London: Augener
Sparks, J. and City of London Sinfonia (2018) Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Bach and the Cosmos. Loved this lecture on mathematics and music, which you can find here: • Bach and the Cosmos
Stephen Malinowski's channel: / @smalin
Tovey, D.F. (compiled 2013 from original 1931 OUP publications) Bach's The Art of Fugue & A Companion to The Art of Fugue. New York: Dover Publications

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Комментарии : 41

@user-qb2cy5kb6t Год назад

Amazing videos. Looking forward to studying your analysis of Contrapunctus XIV! :)

@AnatomyofaTrack 3 года назад

Thanks for doing these, very informative and well produced! Already looking forward to the next one.

@trocomposition4216 3 года назад

Very glad you found it useful. Thanks for the kind words!

@sebastianschweigert7117 Год назад

Making any more of these? Would love to contribute to some kind of patreon or whatever if it encourages you to make more! These videos are great!

@trocomposition4216 Год назад

Thanks! I’m definitely planning to 👍 It’s more a matter of time than money, so I don’t have any plans for a Patreon yet, but I really appreciate the offer 😊

@ahttubharrdo3822 3 года назад

You save my life!! very thank you.

@trocomposition4216 3 года назад

You're welcome! Glad it helped 😊

@canman5060 3 года назад

Maybe take a break and try the Ricercare a 6 from the musical offering. This is the absolute ultimate in the art of contrapuntal writing.

@trocomposition4216 3 года назад

Great choice! Although I'm not sure it would count as a break...😬 😂

@canman5060 3 года назад

@@trocomposition4216 Sorry ! My imagination keep on stretching me so far !

@jerrodball7366 2 года назад

These are pure gold. I spend my weekends up to my neck in Bach. True happiness. And you, sir, are a fantastic professor.

@trocomposition4216 2 года назад

Thanks, Jerrod! Appreciate the kind words. Hope your own Bach studies are going well 👍

@郭子勋 Год назад

Looking forward to more Bach analyses!! I really enjoy these videos.

@henrykwieniawski7233 3 года назад

What a thorough analysis! Thank you for posting this. I've been looking for content like this for ages now.

@trocomposition4216 3 года назад

Thanks, Henryk. Glad it was helpful!

@Tylervrooman 3 года назад

Great work!! Hope to see more analysis of Bach!!

@trocomposition4216 3 года назад

Thanks, Tyler. Glad you found it useful! More on the way soon, I hope….

@rikbardyn5914 2 года назад

tnx for sharing this and your knowledge ! It's really inspiring !

@trocomposition4216 2 года назад

No worries! Thanks for the kind words 😊

@RuoshiSun 2 года назад

I want to express my gratitude for your scholarship and pedagogy. I look forward to the remainder of your series on the Art of Fugue. (Don't know what happened to my last comment so I'm keeping it short this time.)

@trocomposition4216 2 года назад

Thanks, Ruoshi! Hoping to get through them all when I can 👍

@RuoshiSun 2 года назад

@@trocomposition4216 Maybe the algorithm treated my original comment as self-promotion and deleted it - that is not my intention! I'll elaborate here a bit and I hope you won't mind. Last weekend I made a video on Contrapunctus VIII without knowledge of other sources, and I was quite pleased that I found a permutation matrix when all three subjects appear simultaneously. I was aware of Göncz's paper on XIV which inspired me in this regard. This was before I discovered your channel. Yesterday I came across your video, whose level of detail made me realize that perhaps all chords, motifs, and even down to intervals of Bach's corpus have probably been analyzed already... Then I saw your reference to teoria in a comment (thank you!), and although the term "permutation matrix" was not used in the analysis of VIII, it is not surprising that others have long discovered this ingenious structural device. It was a humbling (but not demotivating!) experience for me. I am from the "pre-meme" era (not necessarily "anti-meme" - sparing use is fine for me) and I like your pedagogical style very much. As a content creator myself I can tell how much time, preparation, and editing you have put into these videos. Please keep up the good work!

@trocomposition4216 2 года назад

Really enjoyed listening to your performance of VIII, Ruoshi 👍 And the analysis 👏 I’ll be sure to link to it in the description when I get to the 8th!

@RuoshiSun 2 года назад

@@trocomposition4216 Thank you for your encouragement! I've just uploaded my version of Contrapunctus I and linked to your video. Update: and II as well!

@maurilio1294 2 года назад

9:35

@canman5060 3 года назад

I can't wait to see the analysis of the great unfinished fugue.

@schrysafis 2 года назад

Is it me or Bach used harmonies inspired by God in his last fugue. What if he completed it...?

@canman5060 2 года назад

@@schrysafis There are two really good completion I've found on youtube.

@canman5060 2 года назад

@@schrysafis From what I have encountered in Contrapunctus 14 , Bach may deliberately left it unfinished with a hint on the emergence of the second subject for his students to work on the comnpletion.

@schrysafis 2 года назад

@@canman5060 Yea that might be it but either way we cannot get into Bach's mind world to complete it as he would. Kinda surprising that there are quite a few completions.

@frenchimp Год назад

@@schrysafis It's just you.

@caterscarrots3407 3 года назад

I love your analyses. You know, the idea of making an analysis video similar in style to either you or Chairat Chongvattanakij has crossed my mind, but like, I would need 2 audio tracks I think, one for the music and another for my voice, plus the visual. I don't want to use an expensive software if I don't have to and would prefer free over anything else. I can get Visual + 1 audio track with the built in Video Editor on Windows 10 Photos, but I don't know if that's enough. The reason I'm wondering if it is enough? I'm considering perhaps doing an analysis video from an arranger's perspective, i.e. analyzing a piece I arranged as though I am arranging it on the spot, showing how I took the original piece and arranged it. And what am I currently arranging that would deserve this kind of video analysis you may be asking? It is Mozart's Horn Concerto no. 2 that I am arranging for Piano Solo.

@trocomposition4216 3 года назад

Thanks! I'd suggest software that has two audio tracks as you really want the narration and music to overlap in places. Good luck with the Mozart! 👍

@giulioronconi1768 3 года назад

Thanks a lot, It was very interesting! Are you going to cover all the contrapuncti? Greetings from Italy

@trocomposition4216 3 года назад

Grazie, Giulio! Yes, I'm planning to do all of them and maybe look at some different attempts at completing Contrapunctus XIV 👍

@finosuilleabhain7781 3 года назад

@@trocomposition4216 Great news. Thanks very much for your insights and work making these. When I think of what was available to the ordinary music lover when I was younger (I'm 66), videos like this are a fantastic advance, and yours are particularly informative and (to put it more negatively than they deserve) free from annoying features. Power to your elbow.

@trocomposition4216 3 года назад

@@finosuilleabhain7781 Thank you, Fin! I'm glad you found it useful. Yes, I totally agree - RU-vid is the perfect medium for sharing ideas about music and there's so much amazing content out there. I also recommend Richard Atkinson's channel and 'Early Music Sources', if you haven't come across them yet 👍

@finosuilleabhain7781 3 года назад

@@trocomposition4216 You're most welcome, Tom. No, I don't believe I've come across even the odd video from that channel, but early music is a passion so I'll be checking it out this evening (looks very promising). Thanks for the tip. Would be great to get you a few more followers so I may put out one or two targeted tweets in hopes of getting a few retweets.

@wolfymozart 3 года назад

I LOVE YOU

@robbes7rh 2 года назад

Nice analysis. I love how just based on the little 3-note tail of the subject Bach takes us on this sort of wild excursion of elves and gnomes dancing a lively jig through minor key changes - something not often heard. And, of course, Bach is firmly in control of the harmonic motion as he at first tentatively reintroduces the subject in related keys before finishing up with the subject securely back in its original iteration of D minor. It’s very gratifying to see how Bach’s considerable skills in writing counterpoint have only gotten better as he has gotten older. And this is only the second Kontrapunctus of 15. There is so much more to come from his prodigious musical mind.