WAHAHA

[gojesus]

i get to prove mr o'connor wrong. the theme of "the art of the fugue" is not b-a-c-h, but rather d-a-f-d-c#-d-e-.....etc. liszt, however, wrote a prelude and fugue on the notes 'b-a-c-h' and several other composers have allusions to that in their works. on a related note (hahaha) i got a really cool thing that's like, a million organ pieces on a cd

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[i_want_a_name]

That's awesome.

[i_want_a_name]

But..there's also this:

"Written in Bach's last years, while he slowly went blind, Art of Fugue trails off unfinished in the climactic four-part fugue which would have crowned the work as well as his career. And woven inside it, musical notation spelling out his name . . . B A C H."

It might just be his last Fugue that had it. :\

[gojesus]

ok well a quadruple fugue is where you have 4 themes running aronud being crazy. the 3rd theme of said fugue written by bach is 'b-a-c-h.' this fugue was actually not finished, or so it seems. ok, but definitely mark o'c is wrong since it's not the theme for 'art of fugue,' only a small part of that work. so boo yah, mr o'connor.

[i_want_a_name]

Yeah, I agree with that. I was just pointing out that it was in part of it.

ahhhhhh

[passthelee]

so confused
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nothing makings sense

music terms running in and out of head

must stop the maddness

ahhhhhh

wow, so i am offically confused

Re: ahhhhhh

[gojesus]

ok well...a fugue is a kind of piece. it has a theme that repeats all over the place in different ways. ok? ok. bach wrote alot of them. his final work, in which he explores every kind of fugue, had a theme that he used for eevery fugue. mr o'connor said it was the notes "b-a-c-h" (h being the german term for the note B natural) BUT, as i researched and found out, the theme is just some other notes, and, as lauren pointed out, in the middle of one of the fugues, a new theme is introduced using the notes 'b-a-c-h.' BUT it's not the principal theme for the work, just a tertiary (third) theme for one with 4 themes. OK? ok.