Couldn't have said it better myself

@PlayitonPan

5 жыл бұрын

Johann Sebastian Bach thanks for composing this piece. Did you know that Mozart, Beethoven and many other child prodigies learned to play piano by studying your works 🔥🙌🏾✨ Gutentag😎

@hanswolfgang416

5 жыл бұрын

Bist du deutsch ?

@ludwigvanbeethoven5176

5 жыл бұрын

HELLO B A C H

@jeremyheintz1479

5 жыл бұрын

I play this fugue for my lady friends, they can't get enough. Basically open the floodgates. Bravo.

@somethingpoetic2595

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome, Bach, to the land of the living.

Every bach piece feels like a riddle you have to solve. The more you listen to it the more things you discover, the more you see the structure.

@luscao8444

2 жыл бұрын

And that's why I love Bach music!

This is stupidly awesome and complex, I seriously can't wrap my head around how someone could *improvise* one of these.

@benidk3556

4 жыл бұрын

Your stupidly awesome

@vegahimsa3057

3 жыл бұрын

He's also following his own harmonic rules and explores new ideas in composition. I think it's completely analogous to a jazz improvisation. It's only a matter of opinion whether the great jazz performers have matched or exceeded Bach's genius.

@paulinocontreras8426

3 жыл бұрын

There are a handful of people today that can do this. Gabriela Montero is a master of improv and can do stuff like this.

@lennybuttz2162

Жыл бұрын

@@benidk3556 I think you mean you're stupidly awesome. Your denotes ownership while you're means you are which is what I think you are trying to say. I find it surprising that someone who is watching an instructional video doesn't know the difference between your and you're? I wonder if to, too and two is also a problem or what about there, their and they're? I bet your head is about ready to split.

@joblo8748

Жыл бұрын

It's like 4 chords

Some people spend their whole lives trying to teach - or understand - something you have managed to explain in 8 minutes and 29 seconds. Well done - and thank you!

I'm about to say something dumb, but, like Forest Gump, I am not a smart man. I don't get classical music. I didn't listen to Wagner in the womb; I wasn't raised on Rachmaninoff; Hayden was not my homeboy. But I am captivated in the last two or so years by this music! I don't know the lingo (except, they are not songs!) and lately, I've become acutely aware that I don't even know how to listen. I mean, I hear the music, but it's like I am only able to hear 70% of it. I CAN tell that there's more there than I am hearing, and it's frustrating to know that there is a whole level of understanding that I'm just not getting. It's like I can SEE the facade of the building. I know there's a wealth of architecture and design behind the obvious, but I have no idea what a door looks like, and no concept of how to begin to open it. So your stuff is incredibly helpful. I still can't tell where subject begins and answer ends - but the visual stuff really helped me start to see patterns. I still can't listen to more lines than one or maybe two with any degree of competence, so it's very helpful to watch your videos and at least start to know how to articulate exactly what it is I know I can hear. It's almost like this music is a foreign language: I can hear the sounds and know they are rich with meaning, but comprehending them is just not possible. Your videos are like a primer in grammar. Anyway, long story short, thanks for doing what you do. It's very helpful for people like me who are too dumb to really get what's going on, but not so dumb that they are oblivious to richer meaning available if only they could unlock it.

@mikesowell1717

7 жыл бұрын

"Hayden is not my homeboy." Pure gold.

@juanferestrada

6 жыл бұрын

I know this was a loong time ago, but I’ve been studying music for 1.5 years and have been submerged into the world of classical music for 6 months (once I got in I never went back to popular music) and so as a person who felt just like you did, I have to recommend you an amazing book that’s basically an introduction to music, wrote by Aaron Copland, one of the greatest american composers from the XXth century. It’s called *What to listen for in music* I really recommend it!!

@goodgoyim9459

6 жыл бұрын

Classical music is heavily correlated with intelligence, Chris Wright. Stick to music and let the scientists talk about science.

@goodgoyim9459

6 жыл бұрын

1. Racism isnt a fact or argument, dumbass. 2. classical music is one of the most g loaded activities. 3. no it doesnt just "intepret all equally" what a fucking dumb thing to say you want actual facts? You can tell what race someone is by looking at the shape of their brain (www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(15)00671-5) You are not only spouting false information but committing fraud when you propagate blatant lies about a topic you think is somehow a grey fog. So one again I will say, stick to music and let scientists talk about science moron.

@goodgoyim9459

6 жыл бұрын

not an argument.

This is how youtube should be

@planetyam6044

7 жыл бұрын

you make your youtube

@adorno_gang37

7 жыл бұрын

This and "we are number one" memes

@ian493

7 жыл бұрын

Johan Delvare Don't forget "We are number one" in the style of a fugue. :)

@TheXeeman

7 жыл бұрын

No. just because you like something, doesn't mean you have to force it on to everyone else. the best thing about youtube is that it's NOT what people think it should be. it's that it is not dictated by what people think are good videos, but are videos where anyone can contribute anything. to declare youtube as a place just for your own interests and no one else's is a bit greedy and selfish don't you think? however, chris wright does make good informative videos, and i applaud his hard work.

@runcibusarse-weasel964

7 жыл бұрын

+jigglymabob ......and yet you feel perfectly entitled to declare to the rest of us what is the best thing about KZread and what it should and shouldn't be. Pot, kettle, you know the rest.

I have never heard this so clearly, accurately and engagingly explained. I wish I'd known you when I was 8 years old!! thanks and well done.

Woah, I was looking for the simple definition rather than the structure.. But this video is gold

@octave11thpianist58

3 жыл бұрын

*I m i t a t i o n*

Great Video! Absolutely Top Drawer! That fugue was a forgotten melody from my childhood! And I love how Bach ends this fugue very perfunctorily as though he got bored. He was such a show-off!

@AlanDaNiao

7 күн бұрын

That is prbably because this performance was too rushed, and hurtled at full speed into the ending. A live performance would slow down and give a sense of completion and closure.

1:43 "Of course, just playing a melody over and over would be rather boring [...]" Well, welcome to the world of minimalism...

@slenderman4788

5 жыл бұрын

Ravel, before the Bolero existed: "Hold my beer!"

I can't tell one note from another, and your graphic representation is a BIG help for understanding what is all about. Thank!

If Bach was not well-tempered, we could hear him say "Fugue you!" All the time

@mihordeadana2368

3 жыл бұрын

=)))

@Very_Rando_person

4 ай бұрын

Well tempered clavier ehh?

I'm a new to Baroque music and kept coming across references to the fugue. Watching this wonderfully clear explanation and illustration of the art form has helped me enormously to understand. Thank you! (Now I must listen to more of Bach to develop a well-tempered ear!)

The detail and complexity of what is being described in music composition is amazing.

Thank you, Chris! This is very interesting. I think these composers must have been geniuses to put these pieces together. I liked the "dots" showing how the different parts look.

Short, concise and, thanks to the animation, easy to comprehend, this short video shows how voices are layered to create the architecture of this gorgeous art form. The Little Fugue in Gm is a perfect example to convey this.

this was really helpful! i have to write my own fugue for school and this really helped my understanding. the animation at the end makes everything really easy to see. great video:)

@ouberon916

7 жыл бұрын

Wow, lucky you get to compose stuff, I'm seriously jealous of you. We only get to play/sing everything they tell us, so creativity isn't really a focus of development...

Very interesting and well explained. I've always loved the "Little Fugue."

@kennethschechter352

5 жыл бұрын

If u love it so much u should listen to carolina crown 2017 intro

@joeisnothome

Жыл бұрын

@@kennethschechter352 yes

Feel free to share with your class. A guy who wants to share for non financial gain. Bless you indeed. Now that is what life is all about. PS. Very well and intelligently put together. Thank you.

@malcolmabram2957

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Wright Sorry forgot to say. And enjoyable.

Thanks for explaining this, I was basically told a fugue was a round but more complicated (which I guess it kind of is in a sense) and this was a much more clear and detailed explanation.

@winterdesert1

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. It's a complex round. You got it.

You should have way more subs bro, this is great

@Rayschall1

7 жыл бұрын

I know! Unfortunately not too many people are interested in classical music. SIGH...

@shaularia6813

7 жыл бұрын

like he said this is not only usefull for classical music!

Truly amazing. good job you have done here. I just began my musical studies and Bach turns out to be quiet intriguing. thank you for sharing Chris

Thank you UM! Fugues are such a natural musical expression to me; they're supposedly constructed under strict rules but always sound so natural... I guess when done well everything is... 👊🙂

I am here because I'm reading Cosmos by Carl Sagan and one of the first chapters in the book is called One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue. After reading the meaning of the word fugue, understood that I need a visual explanation. This was quite complex but I appreciated how detailed and visually accessible the explanation was. Thank you!

This is an awesome video. A classical musician friend of mine, once tried to explain fugues and the brilliance of Bach in words and as a dilettante I wasn't able to grasp it, but I always yearned to. Thank you!

Outstanding explanation. Bravo! I love the visual representation of the piece. It's way more exciting to watch than just an organist sitting at the organ. Again, wonderful video!

I love how the prelude and fugue I am studying was playing in the background

Love the visual presentation, you can almost see the diffrent colored points stretching the harmony between them.

Well done! And fun to follow with the graphic. So interesting to “see” and hear music at the same time.

@jimblack8027

4 жыл бұрын

It's the graphic that "made" this for me.

Omg, do this kind of videos again! Maybe more elementary stuffs like counterpoint? The motivation behind the idea, and how it was refined, what makes a counterpoint 'good' and how it eventually impacts the listener and why the idea lasts to this modern days in composition.

Oh, "On reflection" and "Little fugue" mentioned in one video? My favourite pieces! I must subscribe now!

Dude,,,even though you were a little fast on the jaw,,I understood everything you said,,it opened a portal for me,, I'll keep going over this,to help me write the guitar fugue I always wanted to write for classical guitar,,bless you.

i'd include the name of the fugue (Little Fugue) in the description, too. for those who want to look it up after the video is over. other than that, great stuff.

I have always used the chorus "He trusted in God" from Messiah to teach homophonic vs polyphonic. I think it's a little easier for students to identify a theme even when it's being modified if there are words to listen to.

Gazing into the mind of a genius - J.S. Bach. thanks for sharing!

5:00 - the end.....i just realize that bach was a monster

@dovahkiin2

7 жыл бұрын

what do you mean

@aimiliosspiliopoulos1091

6 жыл бұрын

Agha Anantya They was just one of his simple fugues... Beautiful, but simple. If you listen to Contrapunctus VII from the Art of Fugue, you will realize that there are fugues you can't imagine...

@dimitrishartin2460

5 жыл бұрын

smh

@winterdesert1

4 жыл бұрын

@@rabbitofknowledge8051 In the final unfinished fugue of Art of Fugue, before he died, Bach used his own name as the subject. B flat, A, C, H (is C in German).

I could never understand it if not for this video's explanation. You made a VERY good job, thank you.

AMAZING explanation! Why this channel only has 6K subscribers is beyond me. These videos are among the best musical theory videos out there. Fantastic job Chris!

Now I can finally understand all these dank memes

@Evangelionism

5 жыл бұрын

_That's what 99% of us are here for._

This has to be the best video on fugue. Amazing job man! It felt like an astronomy class on music. Welcome to Bach’s world! Subscribed. 👍🏻

This video was fantastic! I'm self-taught, and I've written some compositions. I'll learn a lot here on this channel. I love Bach. Thank you!

@ketereissmore3967

5 жыл бұрын

Same there,except I don't compose.I would like to compose some in the future,tho The first time I composed music was in 9th grade,which ended up in total failure.At that time I basically ignored all those music theories,composing by random mashups.And then blamed the failure for not being talented enough.

I have been a FUGUE FANATIC ever since my piano teacher introduced the WTC Book 1 and 2 when I was in my single digits. It stayed with me Forever.. I studied classical composition at MSM and USC and I use counterpoint in my pieces a LOT.. Its my foundation :)

Wow I did never thought I would be able to learn to appreciate a fugue. Thanks for this

I wish every song i listened to had that visualizer at the end of the video. I feel like that reached my visually inclined brain so easily. All the words you spoke prior to it suddenly clicked.

This video fullfilled its purpose. The piece of Bach which is used in this video changed my perspective of J.S. Bach. Thanks a lot, fugues are marvelous

Beautifully explained! Thank you.

Fantastic presentation. And THANK YOU for knowing the difference between "its" and "it's."

For anyone wondering about the harpsichord piece that plays in the background of this video, it's Bach's Fugue No. 2 in C minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book I. Edit: I mentioned Prelude instead of Fugue so i fixed it. Also thanks for the heart.. although it's gone cuz i edited this..

@UnderColors

Жыл бұрын

BWV 847: Fugue No. 2 in C Minor 😅

Brilliant! Beautiful! Thank you for de-mystifying this wonderful music. I do wish you much success and hope you make a lot of $$$$$ for your work. The artwork of the dots showing us the different voices in the music.....genius!

@LisaB_12204

6 жыл бұрын

Well, may $$$$ find you anyway!! And I'm not sure how I'm going to do it just yet, but I teach English to immigrants and refugees and somehow I will figure out how to introduce them to your work.

You are exactly the channel I've been looking for forever. Thank you for existing!

I wish you take this positively. The Pain of watching the beginning of this video turns into Joy at the last couple of minutes. I Love Bach music. So I guess, Thank you 😀...

Thanks for creating this, explained with great clarity and as the man himself says, a perfect use of his brilliant work.

Nicely done - I learned some things! I like the visualization tool.

Well, I truly learned something new today. And I will never hear a fugue in the same old way anymore. Thank you.

I've seen the word fugue but I never knew what it meant until today. From what I gather it's basically a concept of expressing or sounding multiple melodies simultaneously. Thanks for the example.

I have to make a presentation on this topic, and this video is so helpful. Thanks for making this, you make it so easy to understand this fairly complex music genre.

@theglitch2089

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!

I wish I was clever enough to understand this 😔

I like how you have a fugue as background music.

You've earned a sub, and maybe convinced me to look into a music appreciation class

Great video! This deserves more views. Let's spread the word!

What a cool visual representation, I could watch it all day

Such a brilliant channel! Thanks for sharing something worthy and interesting.

thank you so much this helped a lot for a struggling music theory student!

I love the visual illustration of the live song.

Hello, there, Chris. Very good stuff. I am an aspiring composer and just finished composing a fugue for string quartet. It's very refreshing to see your simple way of explaining this most intricate and complex musical technique. You won a follower. Keep up the good work.

@Jantsenpr777

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Wright Thank you, very much.

@Jantsenpr777

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Wright By the way, what do you think of Beethoven's developments on the fugue? In my very personal opinion, he took the liberty of transforming the episodes into full-fledged developmental sections, as in a sonata-form piece. He sometimes feels like using a hybrid "sonata-fugue". What do you think?

Interesting and useful visual presentation of the fugue style of music.

great explanations !! The simulation you create to demonstrate the voices is genius ! Best in the web.

Wow, the baroque era was much more interesting than I thought! Very well made video, thank you for making this!

@UnderstandingMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for.commenting!

Bravo! Bravissimo! Great lesson!

Wow - I've never enjoyed Bach before - thanks for a great explanation!

Mr. Chris Wright, you are a superior teacher.

Thank you for this video xD I was trying to explain why I liked "little" fugue in g minor so much to a friend earlier but utterly lacked the terminology to do so. The closest I could come was likening it to a musical round. I'll have to just send them this video haha

love this one. super helpful for someone who knows basically nothing about music!

The c minor fugue in the background got all of my attention.

This definitely deepened my appreciation for classical music

Brilliant presentation of 4 melodic lines!!

What a beautiful piece of music. So complicated yet so catchy and hooky.

The visualization is immensely helpful.

Thanks for making this video, it easy to understand, and it's not boring!

Amazing and Awesome content! Appreciated your hardwork. Thank you very much! LOVE IT.

this is a great explanation of the fugue. I've gotta tell ya, it was driving me nuts at the beginning when you kept talking about the G minor fugue with the C minor was playing in the background, but with the help of some rum and ginger I got over it.

Bach's little fugue is so amazing it gave me chills I love itttt😭❤️❤️❤️

The visual representations of the music structure helps a lot. Thank you.

That's absolutely INSANE. You need to eat, drink and breathe music 24/7 probably to make these.

@UnderstandingMusic

7 ай бұрын

I agree. Although I am a decent musician myself, it is baffling to me that Bach no only would compose these but also improvise then at the organ (using both hands and feet!)

The video is very interesting, and very comprehensible. Although, at least for me, without any musical formation, is very difficult associate all this concepts without samples of the music you’re talking about. But in general, excellent video. Thanks.

Woooooooow that insanely impressive! I will also create a fuge now!

Bach is the man. My favorite composer. By far.

Thank you for the explanation.

Absolutely Breathtaking! At first I thought there was not supposed to be an example. And even though it's computer generated, I really think only Bachʼs genius, by his love of the structure, can totally survive mathematically to the cold of the machine playing.

@robertocaesar

6 жыл бұрын

@@UnderstandingMusic It's quite nice. I think this works with Bach quite well since the contrapunctual work demands for mathematical precision. It would have been not the same for Mozart, Beethoven and beyond where different phrasings become part of the core of the music.

This really helped me to write my now 20 fugues!

@theangelalmond852

4 жыл бұрын

:3

Thanks for the visual interpretation of little fugue in e minor

I am in a high school quintet playing this for our Solo and Ensemble Festival. This video is really helping me explain to them how the parts intertwine and work with each other helping create a wonderful song. Thank you for the help.

The fugue is one of my favorite styles to perform in an ensemble. I visualize the different parts (subject, countersubject, answer, etc) like beach balls that everyone in the ensemble is bouncing around to each other. My main experience is in a choir, but I would imagine that fugues are just as much fun in an instrumental ensemble. Yes, they can be technically difficult, and it takes some amount of awareness of everyone else in the ensemble is doing. But once everyone clicks it is just so much fun to perform.

I couldn't praise you more! this was awesome!

I saw this video in music class today!

This video is a cherry popper. Thank you so much.

The Fugue. Praise to be my master

Chris -- THANKS sooooo much for a BIG pile of CLARITY!!!

Very detail explanation for 8.30 minutes video. Thanks for sharing.