"I'm a Barbie girl" but it's a three voice fugue! 🎹 🎤 - Josep Castanyer Alonso 

Jeez, I've never heard a joke piece as well-composed as this. This is absolutely crazy that it gives me goosebumps. Really can't complain much

Holy shit. The production value on this blows me away. This absolutely deserves more views than this.

Who knew "barbie girl" was actually a Bach piece? Impressive and truely exhilarating, bravo!

Dear commenters 😄, I understand that you might feel like you have been struck by a stroke of verbal dexterity, but I must inform you that the pun “I am a _Bachbie_ girl” has already been made approximately 400 times in this comment section. For the sake of Bach, please comment something else...! 😅🤣 ☺️/Josep CA

Bach liked to make mashups of random folk songs as a kind of joke and entertainment for his guests. He absolutely could've written this if a time traveller shown the song to him

Bye I’m enrolling in music composition class to do exactly that

I love how the visuals inform how the arrangement respects the structure of a fugue as well as what's going on with the harmony/chord progressions. That's some wonderful editing. Love the playing and arrangement too.

All joking aside, this is a REALLY helpful way of explaining this kind of music to someone who might not understand it.

Wow. Imagine a whole clasical concert like this. Sign me up!

What a funny little fugue! I must say, in the whole "but it's a fugue" RU-vid subgenre it's quite rare to find one with such exquisite counterpoint. As a composer myself I think it would have been nice to hear the subject a bit more, in its non-variated form; but as I am listening to it again I think maybe it was the right choice, for a piece of this length. But great writing nonetheless. Also a brilliant interpretation. (sorry for bad English, I'm Italian)

Blown. Away. I wish my Baroque-loving, pop-hating mother was alive so I could blow her mind with this.

I'm a Baroque Girl, in a Baroque world

Listening to this on repeat. Longer version pls

Why the video with the 6 composers doesn't exist anymore? 😦

You have taken a paint-by-numbers and turned it into a Mona Lisa.

This is what barbie girl sounds like when it's stuck in my head.

I would never have thought I would once listen to such a "Barbie girl" on a Steinway 🤪 amazing!

RU-vid algorithm delivers quality once again

you know its good when there is a stienway piano

Imagine this guy traveling back to the 18th century and playing this piece in front of an audience. I would love to see the reaction!

You're onto something there. Keep it up and I guarantee 100k+ subs by the end of 2023.

Amazing. Completely transformed into a melody I could listen to for hours. I can't articulate how the sound 'moves' and makes me feel. Stuff like 0:54 and1:08, just feels magical. My grandmother tried to teach me piano. She was strict on 8 year old me. Not a kid friendly person. The piano became an object of hate. A decade later my largest regret is not continuing to learn nor taking music in highschool so I could say least learn some theory.

brilliant. absolutely brilliant!

pretty fugueing cool

Now this man knows his music theory

This may make me sound like an uncultured idiot, but I honestly believe the reason why most pop songs that get popular, one hit wonders in particular, is because they have genuinely good musical ideas. Barbie Girl is a quality tune, and it doesn't surprise me that it can be translated into a really nice fugue.

Wow, how wonderful I have no words

Ummm not only is this wonderful. It's played extremely well. You rock

Super, very well done, idea, composition and performance!

I'm a Barbie girl, in a contrapuntal world, this theme's elastic it's fantastic!

This is amazing.

Where might I acquire the sheet music to this masterpiece!?

this was magnificent. you know your Bach!

Brilliant, Josep! If only I could forget the barbie girl "earworm" because this, yours, now is actually seriously nice music. Johann Sebastian played night concerts in (sort of despised) coffee houses - pubs serving that novelty drink coffee. The German name for these worldly concerts was "Nachtmusik" (night music). So Wolfgang Amadeus referenced to that when he wrote "Eine kleine". And then the upcoming Romanticists referenced the night music with their Romanised translation "Nocturne", turning the "music" part into a silent assumption. In the evolution, Nachtmusik as nocturne turned from saloon-fähig into "salonfähig" to stick to German idiom ("salon" references the most posh room in a home where important guests would be entertained and "fähig" means "capable" or "suited for") with Chopin's performances in the palais de ville homes of the Paris well-to-do. Probably JSB's Nachtmusik performances were a side job to earn some additional money. Or JS felt them as his Christian duty to enlighten the sinners in these pubs. Well capable of musical jokes, I imagine JSB to do something like this to draw attention and then potentially transition into one of his Christian works as justification of the court composer and church choir director playing for the sinners in the pubs. And then go home to make sure his wife was pregnant 24/7 until she died and got replaced - that was a Christian mission after all. We should not forget that many music pieces in JSB's time actually referenced court dances and that a majority of court dances again had their origin in "vulgar" folk dances that likely had been brought to courts by young "noble" men hanging out in vulgar places with access to paid carnal knowledge and then bringing home these dances potentially initially as parodies. A man like JSB in his time very likely understood such history that got covered up in history by not documenting, by not passing on. But enough proof exists, still, in archives. You see, the barbie girl thing, even in my 1960's hippie mind, in the 90s, was such an annoying example of the "unbearable lightness" that can be, that we need to dig deep to provide context to this beautiful escape (fuga) from that unbearable lightness.

It's a crime if they don't fit this into the movie. If it isn't yet, they need to pull it out of theaters and re-release with it there.

This is unbelievably good. Mind. Blown. The composition is one thing. But the vid editing is another. Well done.

This reminded me of Bach's a minor Fugue from the wtc1! Very well composed and played!

i went straight to my guitar and played an f minor after that thank you very much;) great work! the composition is stellar, and the playing is flawless.

Amazingly talented.

Let's hope this goes even better than the Ice Cream truck then 👊 Really nice work!! 🙌

I Love this!

This is stunning! I especially love the editing-in of the theory info. Wonderful composition. I'm a huge sucker for baroque flavors in general and especially fugue pieces so this gave me fabulous nostalgia for my choir days. 😊 Now I gotta go listen to an oratorio or something haha, got me in the mood

LOVED the question marks followed by the exclamation mark 😂 Silly amounts of musical and humor !

Real genius. It’s worth multiple listenings

You're incredible!

This and the one in the style of various composers represent an INCREDIBLE amount of work and level of skill. Absolutely brilliant!

I feel cultured listening to this.

I'm a baroque girl in a baroque world

Show them what means to practice 40 hours per day man! Great job! A 3 voice invention!

Brilliant! Bravo!

Extremely nice composition and performance. A wonderful mix of baroque fugue with pop hit! Interesting choice to use use retrograde motion over inversion. I don't think I've ever really heard a retrograde subject in a fugue until now, probably because it's much harder to detect without being informed. It's brilliant that you were able to make such good use of it, however.

I am so buying this transcription

To everyone asking for more: there is more and more keeps coming regularly! ❤ Feel free to check another fugue video I just made on the "Angry Birds" theme: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H7NRVbTIDKw.html 🦉 🦉 🦉

THIS IS GENIOUS MUSIC AND EDITING!

This is marvelous! and so hilarious in fact i wanna learn it for the fun of it but also for the intelligent work you've done. Any sheet music? :)

This has the power to save the world!

I enjoy the musical term counterpoint, it makes it feel like the fugue is just two voices arguing with each other

Thank you for putting a massive smile on my face.

This is great! A trashy tune is elevated to the conservatory! Sounds like Mozart .

Wow... that's seriously impressive 👏

I don't understand why your channel doesn't have 1 Million subscribers yet..... Come on RU-vid algorithm... Do your thing! Make this guy famous!

Wow that was unironically awesome. Bach would be proud 👍

Love it (just wish it was longer !). Can you/do you plan to publish the score ?

Thank you for the video.

This is beautiful, made me cry tbh

Absolutely beautiful and ingenious!

This is not Bach this is Josep Castanyer Alonso! Incredible composition, it sounds like a more refined version of Bach's works with your own twist and spice added. A lot of personality. Great work!!! Thank you for making these, your fugues are one of the best I have ever heard.

BRAVO! This is wonderfu!

All those years ago when people were mocking me for loving the song, I knew, deep down in my heart, that somewhere, someday, the song would inspire great music.. (ok, I embellished a little bit on the story, well, a lot)

Absolutely fantastic piece of music ❤️ Probably, it's not the first time, than a cover song sounds better than original one, but definitely the one of the best cover I've ever heard

Amazingly Good, i appreciate the part where you explain what you re doing thank you.

Fantastic - bravo! Thanks so much for including the little annotations - e.g., "Phrygian cadence". Very well done, also, giving a little extra visual impact to some of what you were doing - that eighth rest comes to mind, both highlighting it in formalism / structural usage and creating additional visual impact in the video on the, so-to-speak, artistic side. Incredibly well done all the way around - composition / adaptation, playing, directing / shooting / editing of video. A 1m40s tour de force! 👏

This is actually amazing.

The individual doth proclaim herself a damsel of the Barbie lineage, dwelling within a realm fashioned akin to that of a Barbie cosmos, wherein the visage of life is adorned with hues resplendent and fantastical.

king EXCUSEME HOW DID YOU DO THIS LOL and i love the explanations🤣🤣🤣🤣this was literally beautiful! So much skill! good Lord, you gifted us all! /gen

This made my day! Thanks for posting.

I loved the way you put the commentary! a super potent dose of musical theory 😂

This is quality content, new sub :D

Is there sheet music?

Bach is proud!!

это безумно великолепно! У меня пошли мурашки~~~

I adore this. Please keep it up.

I'm litterally laughing at how this sounds so great xD Now I want to learn the art of fugue

I'm in love.

I love music but there is no way I could have taken the years it takes, to live breath eat and sleep it to learn everything and all about it! My complete and utter respect and admiration to all professional musicians who dedicated their lives to being as perfect as they are!!

Gracias! No todo está perdido...

This is actually crazy good, and full of humour ! Congratulations 😆

where's the video where you copied different composer's styles?? :((((((

Your sense of humour is truly inspiring. Great job at everything, this is perfect !

Excellent

This is hilarious thank you 😂

You are a genieus! Well done. Conclusion: there are no bad themes only bad composers!

I really enojoyed it! Great playing, really good arrangement! For some reason the C chord at the end sounds like it should resolve to F (V to I). Was it intentional to make it sound unresolved (or like a half cadence)?

that's far better than the original version actually!!

Nice work, is there any way to get the sheet music?

I love this!

I knew there was something more in that song, more profound and compelling.

Wooww that's sounding like Bach. Bravissimo

When you're a classical pianist or prog rock keyboardist and you're asked to play a popular song