The COVID-19 Fugue
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 พ.ค. 2020
- When life gives you lemons, make lemonade... Or in my case; make a fugue.
In an attempt to make the best out of the bizarre times we live in, my musical contribution to the worldwide pandemic comes in the form of a complex, 4-plus-voice fugue, based on the subject of the ...virus itself!
With some touches of artistic liberty, I interpreted "COVID-19" as an acronym for the musical terms "C° V-I D 1-9" (as explained at the beginning of the video) which when combined, shape a rather spicy fugue subject.
It was no surprise that the subject's 'unorthodox' nature made it quite challenging to integrate it in a tonal context;...a fact, however, that posed no obstacle to two-weeks worth of quarantine-induced free time, together with some Regerian/Mendessohnian inspiration.
Putting all my music degrees in practice (and some amateur-ish editing skills in Adobe After Effects), I created a 'viral' (pun intended, hopefully) fugue, which will take you on a journey across 7 tonalities, 12 subject entries and lots of juicy modulations.
🛈 Legend:
Subject entries can be seen in red.
Subject inversions are marked in blue.
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On a more serious note, much like with many other musicians, this has been a period of reduced incomes for me. Concerts, rehearsals and lessons have all been postponed until further notice.
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🛈 Notes & Acknowledgements:
• The piece has been digitally recorded on a Yamaha CPL-645 (unfortunately given the circumstances a grand piano was not available) and visualized using the MAMPlayer (created by Stephen Malinowski).
• On bar 25 of the video there has been a misprint: The fourth 8th note in the tenor should be a c natural.
• The G flat and B double-flat of the diminished chord of the subject have been enharmonically respelled as F# and A respectively to better fit the tonal context of c minor.
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Those four voices don't respect social distancing at all !
They should be staying at least a tritone apart!
No social distancing is still better than if there were octave or quint parallels.YUCK
@@martinshenanigans nah, he uses the parallel octaves with a good reason, I personally wouldn't enjoy it any other way
Martin Don't be such a purist! 😜The octaves underline the musical intensity... it's COVID-19, remember? This period is highly intense! 😉
It' higly wear disposable gloves when played.
Don’t take this the wrong way, but I hope this goes viral.
Don’t take this the wrong way, but your comment killed me
Hahaha true 😂
Already showed up in my recommended XD
No fucking way.......i like Bad puns xd
How is there a bad way of taking this
Me: “huh, COVID doesn’t sound too bad...”
Also me, realizing: *“WAIT”*
Blueberry Studios XD
r/HolUp
Um
👁👄👁
DOGE 0114 indeed it has
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
Taha Haque yes
Suing for what?
To make a movie about 2020, someone has to survive to 2021.
The virus must be sued?
Suing the people who made that movie?
Me: what key is this?
Covid-19: the key is stay at home.
Underrated
C minor
only leave the tonic if absolutely necessary, and always stay a tritone away from other people
@@cellularautomaton. go out only for chopin
but then come Bach as soon as possible
0:20 January
1:21 February
2:31 March
4:15 April
5:14 May
Omg yes
Yess
@@aidan4337 bruh XD
아존나웃겨 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Where is December?
I feel like I've wasted my music degree because I know this stuff and still didn't write a covid 19 fugue.
Nice work.
Vegetarian Soylent Green x2
Same here!x3
Uh I feel that.
Um im homeless do you have a youtube channel about pianos i watch only piano channels because i wanted to becoms a pianist
Yep same
Imagine this playing as your doctor diagnoses you.
Wow put that in a medical commercial.
Fbi open up
Fbi joined yt 3 years ago? Pretty late
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."
Wägi qwq - I’ve been watching since 2010 😂 this is a new account.
world: we found the cure
this guy: time to write a requiem
pFT-
when you’re the 666th like 😌✊
*KONO REQUIEM DA!!*
I know you're referring to Mozart's Requiem
But I have to make a JoJo reference
Kore ga Requiem da
@@indeedinteresting2156 kore ga*
Student: what's this song about.
Teacher: *pandemic, disease, DEATH*
And hope
This music is dedicated to Pelosi And Schumer I would greatly support this sound.
Greta Totenberg also likes your music and she wants to learn how to play piano during dangerous pandemic.
I’m sorry I spelled her name in ✡️
Lmfao Amen dude, AMEN! 👌🏽 well said
The music even looks like COVID charts
specially the bass lol
XDDdD
No covid is leap too peak.
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...
Someone: **plays this on piano**
Friend: Ooh what are you playing?
Someone: Covid-19.
Yes!
Everybody may say "Who is he or she ?"
I am considering playing it and upload a video next week.
There will be one or two movies, I'm fairly sure
Xingyu Yao, MT-BC it doesnt seem playable, sometimes the spread is too much for two hands (specially the ocatave parts)
This sounds like a piece that would play during the end of the world... peaceful but full of chaos and bitterness.
Omg it really does. Sounds like it will be at the end of an apocalypse movie, when it shows that there are no living creatures left in this earth
Self-Esteem Fund
Imagine this just plays after covid19 kills everyone
It’s because of the C diminished and odd key centers
Just my favourite type of music :D I personally listen to a lot of Chopin
People: What made you study classical music?
Me: *Plays this video*
For the memes
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.
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Piano Composition really beautiful my recommendation
@@theyogidevotee Nope. The classical period was from 1750 (marked by the death of Johann Sebastian Bach) to 1820.
@@henrykwieniawski7233 thats what I said…?
Ahh yes, the national anthem of 2020
more like international
Never before have I been so offended by something I 100 percent agree with
I'm going to tell my kids this was the national anthem during the pandemic.
That is great!
you having kids?
International*
That is if we survive.
@@tipyingmistakes4743 nah i meant how u have gf
this should go viral, jeez
not...not that kind of viral though...
NeonSilver uhm..
leave
😂😂😂😂😂
Oof hahahaha🤣
Oh no tiktok lmao
At 2x speed it sounds like a broken 80's cartoon game
I don't know why, but it actually sounds good
Ngl sounds good to me and way less dramatic,underrated comment
woah
bro composers be goin here
Me: “Will this song make me feel better?”
This song: “No, but also yes.”
deadfr0g
“Well-yes,-but-actually-no”-Meme-vibes I’m getting here
LOL
Yesn’t
No
No
No!!!
EXACTLY. PERFECT comment.
Lol
Ok, now I have to hear what this would sound like on the harpsichord.
Nice to have you around Beethoven, it's been a while!
@Alex Uvakov [Student] GOTTEM
@Alex Uvakov [Student] Ouch
@Alex Uvakov [Student] i was about to comment that
Nice profile picture bro!
Everyone: this is a beautiful piece of music the way they used the notes was amazing🤓
Me: I like to watch the lines and circles move🙂
Ya same
the hell is it with the emojis
SAME
I am satisfied by it
How quirky (¬_¬)
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 .
I hope it turns out negative 🙏
Shit just went from 0 to 9999999999999 real quick 0______________0
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....
@@sargentsteve7148 Extinction is a bit of an overstatement, no?
The soundtrack to 2020: the movie
Rated E for everyone, viewer distancing is advised
Not coming to a theatre.
I’m the 300th like, my lucky day!
*sirens blare and an action scene plays with its corona time played in the background*
2012 who? 2020 is here to strut its... stuff?
I read it as discretion 😂
I couldn’t have written it better!!
Thank you almighty J.S.Bach!
When’s your new stuff coming out?
Bad news dude I heard he broke his “Bach”
yes, we are waiting for some new stuff. How long will your sabbatical last ?
Johann Sebastian Bach why you got a Soviet playlist saved lol
Now imagine, the world is ending everything is in chaos and this is playing like in a movie.
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 honestly expecting this to be a total meme when I read the title but I was blown away by how beautiful it sounded. Truly amazing work.
woah
Smh I thought you were a kuchipatchi but I was lied to
I underestimated this musician’s counterpontal aptitude.
It is a total meme. It's just a classy one! Lol
It still sounds bad, but I guess he did the best for this shitty melody
Bach came back for 6 minutes. Absolutely brilliant what you have done with Covid-19. Can we also get a Prelude?
Or a Plaguelude?
@@itsguidry8125 That's a great title! Will start working on it soon.
Patrick Goppold Yup, more fugues like this, please! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍
That's not Bach. [EDIT] Bach is haydn because of the virus.
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. th-cam.com/video/esG2gBASPwY/w-d-xo.html
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I love your work, but your last name is what got me to subscribe! It is such an uncommon and nice last name!
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
Friend: What type of music do you listen to?
Me: Covid-19
Jimena Paredes amigo: ¿qué tipo de música escuchas? Yo: covid-19
Finally a comment that’s actually original
Yes
When the people who named the virus see this: I'm somewhat of a musician myself
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
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...
@@sargentsteve7148 exactly
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.
This will be played in the extinction of humanity.. Don't miss it
*is being played
@@iamjimgroth I am referring to the future (which won't happen)
@@aoidesu7876 it WILL happen
@@quirinobenitez273 actually it will, but maybe not from Covid
Begone vile Extinctionist :D Humanity shall endure.
This is the music that students in 2030 will be learning about in history class.
La historia termina antes de 2030.
More like 2050’s
Idk...i think 2030 is too soon 🤔
なんかよくわからないけどやってきてしまった日本人です。
オイラも理解できない
不気味な曲ですな...
簡単に言うとCOVID19(コロナ)を
C゜V-I D 1-9 と変換します。
C゜はCdimと言うコードの事で
ド、ミ♭、ソ♭、ラ♭♭(ソ)の4つの音の事です。
V-IはダイアトニックスケールのナチュラルマイナーのV-1というコードです。このコードはド、レ、ミ♭、ファ、ソ、
ラ♭、シ♭となっていて、これをC゜のコードの終わりのシ♭♭の続きに持ってくるとすると、ド、ミ♭、ソ♭、シ♭♭、ソ、ドとなります。
Dはコード等ではなく英語でレの事を表しています。つまり、ド、ミ♭、ソ♭、シ♭♭、ソ、ド、レとなります。
最後の1-9は1の意味はよく分からないのですが1-9の下のカッコに書いてある9=2というのはショパンの作品9-2、つまりノクターンの事を表していて、
ド、ミ♭、ソ♭、シ♭♭、ソ、ド、レ、の7音並んでいるのでノクターンの最初から8音目、9音目を見るとド、レ♭と書かれています。このド、レ♭を当てはめると、
ド、ミ♭、ソ♭、シ♭♭、ソ、ド、レ、ド、レ♭となります。
そしてこの出来上がった音階をこの動画のタイトルのFugue(フーガ)に当てはめて作曲したのだと...
間違ってたらすみません。
@@user-nj4cc8iq7x 有識者ニキオッスオッス
Umm uhh I don’t speak Chinese
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
Me at the start: Jesus, this is contrived. I bet it sounds crap.
Me at the end: Well, I got that badly, badly wrong.
TheLongDark , me too.
The formation is still pretty contrived, there’s just so many other beautiful melodies laid over it
It was a contrived melody they just put enough pretty melodies around it to make it seem better than it was.
This melody is haunting, absolutely wonderful, a faithful portrait of the current situation, the lingering feeling of doom, the slight hopefulness...
Low-key I kinda like it :v
I love how you made this so detailed when it's just Covid 19 on piano lol. Still pretty cool.
And the curtains were fucking blue
@@rosestrohm7986 Every so often it may be they were intended to be blue :p
Why do I see a lot o fyoutubers with this ✔, is it fashion XD 😂
The Great Man Himself, J S Bach would have been proud to own this.
와..진짜 영원히 끝나지 않을것 같은 지구의 재앙으로 온 코로나의 무서움과 같이 노래도..약간 섬뜩함?무서움?과 같이 표현이 되네요..저렇게 쓴것도 대단하셔요..
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".
ring a ring of roses... 🤔🤔
400th like :]
@Dimitri Fugue it depends. If you were a noble, you would be very workless.
the black death from something rotten who
I think Danse Macabre was inspired by the black death?
When Bach gets Corona but makes his own medicine to cure himself
Loved the picardi 3rdat bar 80 btw
*medicine
He would probably do what other people did, and cut himself open to get the virus "out of him"
@@HowardTse my bad, got the French influence of médecin
Kind of morbidly funny!
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!
Reminds me of those old creepy broken glass dolls in the Victorian era that are still in abandoned houses 😱
You can now say to your friends and family “I made covid-19”
Two set violin need to hear this
InTerEstiNg
Yeah let them watch this
*yes*
OH YES TWOSET GANG
twosetviolin is a virus slowly (quickly at 15 notes a second) spreading across the internet.
not that its a bad thing
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.
"turning chaos into art"
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!
That's why I love diminished chords!
I kind of got chills down my spine reading that
GeG_ I’m a little concerned that after I liked this, there were 666 likes...
C° stands for C diminished 7th
V - I stands for dominant - tonic (in C minor)
D stands for, well, *the note D*
And then play it 19 times.
Excellent! Greetings from Istanbul/Constantinople!
I was expecting it to be a meme and it would just play the coffin meme song
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
This is such a difficult subject to be writing a fugue out of. You would make old J.S. Bach proud. As a fellow composer, I truly respect this.
Yes. bach would certain proud of you :-)
😂😂😂rather discusted, it sounds to me as a cheap copy of the art of the fugue
🎵 GENIUS 🎵
@@MrRabend 🎵 I'm not a composer but I KNOW HE WOULD 🎵
🙏💜🙏
Diego Piles yeah cuz the shit you make is better
The musical sensation is simply *contagious* ~
I can just imagine the virus singing this in a musical lol.
It’s great how he can take such a horrible situation and turn it into a work of art.
Yeah but I mean it's not like the music itself has anything to do with the pandemic… just because the virus is called 'covid-19'
Sounds like a tragedy disguising itself with a cracked smile
I held my breath for 30 seconds every so often while listening.
Wow this is so fabulous and it really captures how life is at present. Very sad for all the people who have lost their lives or suffered in the pandemic and those who are still suffering. It shows the angst of the mental struggle and yet it is beautiful and tragic at the same time. I'm a huge lover of Bach and particularly his fugues. , which this is so like. Thank you Nicholas. :)
This is a song for a new movie: “The End Of The Human Race”
Brayden Weese no one since we will all be dead
@Brayden Weese it will be the finale of the series Earth - popular among aliens
{StrYKePlaysMC / johnpick} Hypixel PvP Yes and this will sound in the last 10 minutes when the last humans die
it should be played in the *song title* played over the end of the world that are always in my recommended
Brilliant
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?
Life IS art and vice versa
Noah Kilgus damn bro thas deep
@@noahkilgus9860 dudeeeeee we are all rubix cubes if you think about it
Yes.
So, it took a while, but the *Prelude* has finally arrived:
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Awesome
ok.
Listening to this gives me so much anxiety and **I don’t know why**
That's a fugue for you 🤣
It doesn't really resolve? Its major and minor at the same time?
Honestly this sounds like the theme song for a show or movie about murder, mystery and cheating on your wife.
no it sounds like covid
Cheating on WHO.
i dont think it suits for cheating on your wife but yeah lol
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Piano Composition really beautiful my recommendation
Well now I want a SARS prelude
Haha me too 😂 also, great name...
I tkink the too combine woukd be great
Oh my goodness,, this is incredible! Those complicated notes(melodies), those combination that create beautiful chords(bass). This music give me an unexplainable sense(outside the context of COVID-19). This is a masterpiece!!
This fugue is sick as hell
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.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Covid is singing
And so are you.
😂thanks for the laugh amazing 🙏🏻❤️
Genius
@@eeeeeee5957 nO voiLeT iS tOilet LOL
Wow this is honestly a fantastic theme and realization! Haunting and befitting of the subject matter. And an incredibly beautiful ending!
This is such a cool fugue - I hear a definite influence from Bach's 'Musical Offering' (the theme opens with a similar rising 4 note motif, so it makes sense), but there's an inventiveness and a willingness to go for certain chord progressions that are uniquely in your own voice. Wonderful work!
Finding meaning where there is nothing, is only a human capability
And what a glorious capability it is.
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!
You're all right.
Netflix originals: Covid - The Series
XD
Very creative piece, rather greatly shows the evil and sorrow and fear people have toward COVID-19, although there could be more variations in the piece, this is already good enough
We need to get @TwoSetViolin, the viola community, and the recorder community together to play this piece and heal the rift between them
A recorder quartet piece, perhaps
I agree
What viola community?
That would be awesome
What about the Magic Flute Community?
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!
We wrote inventions in our counterpoint class. My favorite was 2nd semester theory when we wrote a tune with 7th chords and then "Wagernized" it.
3:01 - 3:13 !!! So simple yet so beautiful and pleasing for the ear!
Omg this is so artistic and talented but also a little bizarre . Life is a symphony 👏👏👏👏🎵🎵🎵👏👏
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
A brilliant fugue that is for sure! It looks like alot of thought went into it
This is musical pure beauty. Your talent shines.
This is awesome! I love counterpoint, and it was clever how you used the letters. Reminds me of how Bach would spell out his name, w/ H as Bb oc. I'm thinkin' of writing something using the letters of my name now just for funsies haha! Terrific job!
Edit: ironically, 10 months later, I'm writing another fugal section and decided to revisit this fugue for inspiration lol.
You are an actual genius. Thank you for posting this masterpiece!
I came for the laugh, but stayed for the beautiful music. that climax build-up at the end of the piece...wow... Congrats!
The rhythm is quite contagious.
Beautifully done, and a magnificent idea. What a wonderful way of making beauty out of pain.
This is SO brilliant written and so very beautiful!,🙏❤️ You are a genius!
素敵な曲ですね。
例え今までとは違ってもまた穏やかな日々が訪れますように。
It's a wonderful song.
I hope that calm days will come again, even if it is different from before.
What but fugal form could adequately express the waxing and waning of the Covid plague. Bravo composer and pianist.
When Ling Ling gives up hope on practicing 40 hours a day because of the pandemic.
LING LING 40 HOURRRSSSS
Twoset needs to see this tbh
Ling ling 40 hours!
Ahahahahah
I see you are a man of culture
AmAzINg
True genius! When I first heard the opening theme my first thought was "no way will he be able to make this sound like a Bach fugue!" But you DID! Shows both your own genius, AND the genius of Bach, who was a master at taking strange sounding themes and weaving them into amazing fugues! Congratulations!
Other people: Oh no it's covid-19
Nicholas Papadimitriou: Allow me to sing you the song of my people...
I always admire composers who can do anything at all with such "impossible" subjects.
It's amazing how such an atonal Melody can be turned into a beautiful figure through harmony