This is one of my favorites from _The Art of the Fugue_.

In the coda a fifth voice enters and continues to the end; unfortunately,
those who have to rely for now on the Amiga's four internal sampled voices
will lose some of the music, but I think that enough of the essence comes
through to justify uploading it in its present form--I just couldn't bring
myself to omit the fifth voice, or even to try to condense the five into
four by selectively omitting duplicated pitches in vertical combinations.  I
regret that the last seven bars have one too many voices; enthusiastically I
started to enter the music, then when I arrived at the coda . . . an extra
voice.  I had forgotten about it completely.

For systems with one or more external synthesizers, I found that orchestral
strings, doubled at the unison with brass on all voices, seemed to do the
fugue justice.  I preferred TX81Z:B30 (HiString 2) and FB-01:5/5 (Trombone),
or TX81Z:B3 (Flugelhorn) and FB-01:5/27 (LoString 3).

I suppose that the main reason I did not fine tune the dynamics as I did the
tempo is that I cannot (and wouldn't really want to) get the Lionel Rogg
performance on organ (on the Angel label) out of my ears after fifteen
years.  That layered, additive approach is probably what led me to disregard
the dynamics in the Czerny piano edition I used.

Also, since I used a piano version of this music, why did I transcribe the
music onto four staves rather than two?  First, I believe that Bach composed
the original in that way; second, the individual lines are easier to follow;
and third, I would have had to untangle the piano score anyway to find which
notes belonged to which voices.  Regardless, I would not have presented this
feast for ears and mind in any other way.  In this form the golden balance
between theme and harmony, the tension between horizontal and vertical
combinations, is plain to see.

Being new to CompuServe, I especially hope that this piece may serve as my
introduction of sorts.  I probably have not followed the protocol of 'new
member' listings and messages very well.  This is not deliberate--so much to
learn, so little time!

I hope that all who download this fugue find as much enjoyment in it as I
have.  Doubtless the length of what was meant to be just a word or two
betrays my 'nervousness over first upload' syndrome.

I can only manage to log on about once per week; please E-mail [71211,2761]
any comments--with my luck your message would just roll off the board as I
was logging on.

Thanks for reading, thanks for listening.

                                    Steve Zubko  [71211,2761]