If they don’t use this in a movie about 2020 I’m suing. Edit: Firstly thanks for the likes HOLY CRAP also...why are y’all so pressed😂 it was a thoughtless joke
A few years ago I was having pains in my chest. It turned out to be a muscle spasm, so I was fine. But at the time, I was sitting in the doctor's office and lo and behold, Demi Lovato's "Heart Attack" starts playing on the radio. At the time I thought, "Well, that's ill timed."
All these octaves in the bass line, you can tell he wrote this with the Organ in mind - music that deserves to be played at the Haarlem organ, seeing that the composer lives not too far from there...
And I simply made two improvisational guitar tunes, no musical intricacy, sophistication, whatever. No relation to the music theory and the notes, at all. Just a message. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-esG2gBASPwY.html
I can imagine great composers from the past: -Lord have punished us with the plague! We are going to die! -Ok, but listen to this song I just composed. I call it "the black death fugue".
Baroque period. Not really classical you cant study “classical” classical is an actual time period of music rougly from 1730 to 1820 and not all music that isnt from recent times or piano music falls into the classical period.
Prezados: parece música de enterro rsrsrsrs sinistro não há beleza. Não agrada aos ouvidos. Pode ser uma obra-prima, mas é bem parecida com o coronga vírus rsrsrsrsr
This sounds... anxious. Almost like the virus in audio form. The timing of all the most dissonant parts give off an unsettling vibe, almost as if I was seeing someone keep composed and calm through seeing a tragedy happen before their eyes, it is something eerily ironic and inhuman in it. Great job!
Everyone: this symbolizes the lingering doom of Corona, the slight hopefulness, like someone who keeps calm and composed while seeing a tragedy happen before his eyes Me: hehe, pretty music
The visualization on the bottom is reminiscent of the curves and charts we see of the virus spreading around the world. Does art imitate life or vis versa?
Incredible. As someone who studies music theory, I can say that this fugue is beautifully constructed and plays so well into the current circumstances. I got chills. Bravo, sir.
I was skeptical at the outset, thinking the intro was just a tease, and nothing more; an etude, maybe. But once I heard more, well, just wow! You nailed it- form, rhythm, feel, feeling- perfectly. Thanks for uploading, and much appreciated. Best wishes & good luck, my friend.
Nicholas, this reminds me of Bach's Ricercar a 6 from the Musical Offering - the pattern in the first five notes of the subject, especially, and the way it all builds.... some very grand fugue subject entrances scattered throughout. It certainly seems to be written in the spirit of Bach, but I can hear Mendelssohn in here as well.... the lighter, sweeter elements for example. It seems to be driving very hard at times like Bach, and then you ease your foot off the gas pedal and a fresh light shines through. Though these mood shifts are unexpected, and I'm not sure exactly what to think - the overall emotional arc to me feels like it could use some tweaking - nevertheless it's all very well constructed and I'm very impressed with your contrapuntal dexterity. And I would love to hear this on organ or arranged for a chamber ensemble, to bring out different colors. You're a very gifted composer and I've now subscribed to your channel. Thanks so much for your own musical offering - I think Bach would be proud. Actually, the whole setup - using the letters and numbers to set up the fugue subject - is very much a Bach type of thing to do. Great job!
Thanks a lot Jeffrey! Being an organist, (apart from Bach) I draw lots of inspiration from Mendelssohn and Reger. ...This emotional arc you are talking about might be an expression of my own quarantined mental-state at the time of writing!
Considering what everyone has been going through in the last few months this piece is actually terrifying and how close it comes to the mood of those who have been exposed as well as those who have fallen ill on a personal note I am listening to this as I am waiting for my results to come back from my covid-19 test., and listening to this it brings this all into perspective in ways you never could imagine .
In these times, it really is sad to see people try and be positive and happy about these times, I say it's more calming to just accept the inevitable, extinction....
We had to write a few fugues when I was in Berklee College of Music in the late '60s. They were the hardest things I ever had to figure out how to write! Massive respect and admiration for the composer, here, for writing not only a fugue but wonderful MUSIC!
I really appreciated you highlighting the repeated melody in red , it’s almost like helping in future years to come of studying this piece for a recital and having a head start 🤣 bravo sir 👏 seriously impressed Bach fan
My god... that texture... the structure... the development... the key modulations... the inversion+normal subject in the end... the modal interchange... damn, I'm completely bamboozled, this is undeniably awesome stuff!!!!!!!!!!!! From a simple subject to a 5-part fugue, you might have put a lot of work to conceive this masterpiece
This is my third time listening to this (master)piece, and I am more impressed by it each time. Beautifully structured and with progression and development worthy of the great master JSB himself. What I loved was that it seems to me to stretch the rules of Baroque harmony and counterpoint whithout breaking them. Bravissimo!
Masterfully said yourself! (To me atleast, im no scholar definitely no poet). Just found this, after being recommended due to other cool fugues i been watching nothin short of greatness this man’s creation
Sounds like a secret agent talking to the person he is about to kill but telling his backstory and how bad the world is to him and flashbacking to his story with desaturated scenes
What a surprise! Congratulations Nicholas : all the "rules" of the classical fugue are here even the incredible contrary movement and strettes at the end. And I need the organ version OF COURSE!!!
My impressions: It is a sad and consciousness fugue. Seems like a lot of deaths by an invisible enemy, with nothing available to deal with it (until 2:40) From the middle to 4th minute, it becomes a little less sad, but still consciousness, like the humanity learning to deal with the new scenario. The heavier notes from the middle to the end are like a problem becoming bigger and bigger, the enemy becoming stronger and stronger. Great work. I loved it.
This managed to have both the feeling of impending darkness similar to that of the iconic opening of Bach's Toccata as well as the feeling of despair and sorrow similar to that of the last movement of Tchaikovsky's 6th and final symphony. Aka you have written a perfect fugue that captures the emotions and all around energy of the our time here on earth right now
This music could console people in grief for losses under COVID-19 circumstances. I hope it will end soon. And I'm so surprised the way you use the word to make melodies. Thanks for the beautiful music.
Chapeau Mr Papadimitriou: I really mean it, as someone who has devoted a significant share of its studies, compositional endeavours and life to counterpoint. This work, whose tortuous subject has been carved toilsomely with a gematric procedure from a bleak biological acronym, is a masterful fugue in the congectural style of a highlander-like Bach, lived through the beginnings of the XX century. And still, despite all the daunting structural bindings, this is a moving and compelling piece of music.
Your statement remind remind me myself when I studied piano in Odessa Conservatory of music. We also studied scientific communism. Political economy. Another crazy subject related to contemporary situation. I love your statement much better then this music whoever music of this fabulous composer do you reserve attention it’s hard to deny. BenjaminPerlman.
I shared this on social media a couple days ago and you'd think I would have moved on by now, but I have actually come back and listened to it a few more times since then. Truly a beautiful piece on its own merits and not just for the novelty / cleverness of its origins.
I am homeless and my mom bought me an ipad from her savings in her work and i keep watching you guys because i always wanted to become a pianist thank you so much for helping me!
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love how at the end when it seems like it’s all going to be ok it comes crashing down with that low chord conclusion. In the movie of COVID that’s the final death count, white font on black background.
It’s been said for ages that human beings have the ability to overcome from almost everything. Far beyond resilience, there is creativity. Listen to this amazing piece of art.
Bravo! Die beste Fuge, die nach 1750 geschrieben wurde. Als ich das Thema hörte, dachte ich, daraus könne man nichts Gescheites machen. Ich habe mich getäuscht.
Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues (1950/51) / Fauré - Op. 84 6. Fugue in e-minor / Cesar Franck - Prelude, Fugue et Variation Op. 18. Music doesn't stop between 1750 and 2020. I thinks you shall see again the music's history.
The unsettling and eerie sound accurately depicts what going outside during this time is like. And the as the sound starts to feel peaceful and cheerie reminds me of the deaths going down and as soon as it gets intense and unsettling again is the death rates going up, George Floyd ,and the LGBTQ+ rights but as soon as the music gets peaceful again is a start of a new year and a new change. But who knows maybe I’m wrong and just dug to deep? I’ll let you decide. 🤷♀️
That peace is not the start of the new year... it's the end of the calendar, that peace will only come until the day the last human on earth suffocates...
Bar 56 is good, 57 is better, 58 is even better, 59 is amazing counterpoint, but the climax at 60 is absolutely amazing. Congrats on a awesome piece of music!
I kinda want to learn this on pipe organ once I can get back into the church I practice at! This would sound sweet with some light diapasons... (not that it doesn't already sound incredibly cool).
OK - YOU DEFINITELY deserve the "PULITZER PRIZE IN MUSIC" after this......... that this is so marvelous is beyond WORDS to describe its far-reaching beauty. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
JSBach and Cesar Frank are clapping hands!!!! Extremely beautiful. Covid? What? Is it the new appetizer for the food fashionistas? Greetings from Malawi. Where we have REAL problems of the health system. But we still alive. Please do not be jealous!
