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- This is one of my favorites from _The Art of the Fugue_.
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- 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.
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Thanks for reading, thanks for listening.
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- Steve Zubko [71211,2761]
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