Brought a smile to my face when I started to notice all the "tricks" which is often missing in other attempts. But I love the key changes the most. Sounds "modern" to me when you hear an unexpected key change or a non-standard modulation. Bravo!
wow! really well thought out and executed. this arrangement is delightfully complex and clever without veering off to the realms of musical obscurities or dull simplistic fugues. i love it!
wow，i never heard before so beautiful christmas song like fugue tune,i like this arrange very much.pls keep it up and thanks for your sharing.May God Bless you👍
Thanks! And yeah, I agree...I myself might get around to learning it, but that probably won't come for a while. Maybe in time for the December 2022 holiday season? :)
I love Bach's music and UA-cam recommended me this video! Thank you for sharing your brilliant talent with us! Keep it up and May God bless you and your loved ones!
On top of being a wonderfully constructed fugue, the engraving is lovely. Musescore can be very finnicky with even having two voices in a stave work, you mange three and it doesn't look wonky. Can't imagine how much fine tuning that took.
@@dhliebowitz I have only attempted one fugue and it was not as perfect or strict as yours. And I didn't modulate at all...as it was part of a much longer movement I felt that it was successful in maintaining the mood of the piece...I didn't let the baroqueness of the form take over my effort. I like how you slyly move away from this tendency.
Nice work! At the risk of nit-picking, there are a couple of passages that would benefit from renotating so the upper 3 very independant melodic lines aren't smack-dab on top of each other. It would facilitate other folks learning to play this very imaginative and humorous piece if that were to occur.
THIS ARRANGEMENT IS LIT! Though if i may ask, why use so many 16th and 32nd notes if you can use 8th and 16th notes while adjusting the tempo accordingly to 180 bpm (120 per dotted qtr)? While I do like this arrangement very much, all of the note handles and bars everywhere crammed into one place makes it quite confusing to read. In addition, each measure sounds like it has 2 measures of content, so it would make more sense to write it the other way. What do u think?
alright, that's epic, but why on measure 19 do that lol. going to E minor, and why is that double sharp there? (also a parallel octave) but this is great and I hope to write something as effective one day.
This is really good musically! Very inventive. Is it physically playable? Some parts of it look unmanageable, but I wonder if you've been able to make it happen under your fingers
thanks man! the piece is 100% playable -- maybe a bit awkward in certain places but very much possible. have been thinking about learning it and uploading a recording...
not necessarily! “fugue” is a structural/formal descriptor more than anything else - of course there are sad and depressing-sounding ones, but they come with all types emotional characteristics
Thank you Aaron, and that would be great! Here's a PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1qRf1097zuDhbHTwca72tpeTFFl-0HBJ6/view?usp=sharing I'd love to see this on your UA-cam channel some day...I'm a big fan!
@@dhliebowitz Thanks so much! Wow small world. Haha. Thanks If I had discovered it a month ago, I cold have tried for this Christmas season. Maybe next year! :) (Of course I love Christmas music all year long so who cares about the date, right? )
@@shawncharton9416 This piece is very playable. At times the writing doesn't clearly indicate which hand should play which notes, but this fugue, in general, is quite approachable. It's about the same difficulty as many of the more technical Bach WTC fugues.
Yes, it is actually playable. Similar to many Bach fugues from book 2. Excuse all the drama you see below; I myself am a bit confused how someone who claims to have played every chopin Etude dismisses this piece as overly difficult… :)
@@dhliebowitz Preach. I only discovered that whole thread today (initially a response to my comment). I am so upset by the toxicity of how he approached the whole thing and I may respond to him at some point. Completely playable from my point of view. What's ironic is he said it may not be and he only gave two or three examples of how it didn't feel good and the other garage of comments seemed to be more about dissing on the composition. In any case- the moments he brought up were indeed awkward, but have natural pianistic solutions (rolling the 10th, redistributing voices, etc.). In another event- do you have a website, email, or other way of contacting you? I would like to be in touch soon regarding a performance of this piece and I have a few questions.
@@AaronPetitPiano Thank you for this comment, was hoping you'd see everything! I see you have a website, is it ok if I submit a contact form through there?
Brought a smile to my face when I started to notice all the "tricks" which is often missing in other attempts. But I love the key changes the most. Sounds "modern" to me when you hear an unexpected key change or a non-standard modulation. Bravo!
Thanks Ken! Glad you enjoyed it
It could be composed by a classical master. Albrechtsberger would be proud of you! (Sometimes he uses unexpected modulations).
im 2 years in as a mostly self taught adult beginner and what you just wrote is chinese
@@ReVRaiNHawK Try ua-cam.com/video/ItsMmqTOgKo/v-deo.html
I’m amazed by the tight structure 😱😱😱 almost no episodes! Such amazing structure!
Thanks!
wow! really well thought out and executed. this arrangement is delightfully complex and clever without veering off to the realms of musical obscurities or dull simplistic fugues. i love it!
Thank you!
wow，i never heard before so beautiful christmas song like fugue tune,i like this arrange very much.pls keep it up and thanks for your sharing.May God Bless you👍
I was going to write "Made me smile" when I saw that the next comment was: Brought a smile to my face! Kudos!
Thanks Jordi!
Write a prelude and I’ll put it on my next exam repertoire 😜 Great piece, well done! ^^
I might do just that...
Amazing job, I love how the rhythmic motif never dies
Ingenious. It would be better played by a person rather than a robot. The ending was particularly robotic. It deserved better.
Thanks! And yeah, I agree...I myself might get around to learning it, but that probably won't come for a while. Maybe in time for the December 2022 holiday season? :)
@@dhliebowitz How's the progress?
Didn't get around to it this year, unfortunately... lots going on, but maybe next year! Maybe I'll write another one as well....
@@dhliebowitz I played this fugue this weekend for a local amateur classical music group. Thank you for the composition!
@@justarobert That's wonderful, so glad you were able to share it! Might you have made a recording? 👀
I love Bach's music and UA-cam recommended me this video! Thank you for sharing your brilliant talent with us! Keep it up and May God bless you and your loved ones!
Thank you for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed
This is so cool 😍 I tried to compose fuges, too. But this is on another level.
johann would be proud !
Love the modulations!!!
That makes two of us :)
JSB just sent me the link and recommended to listen this!
Good jog 👏👏👏
You are very talented!!!!!!!
Amazing how the tune was expounded! Belated happy holidays!
Always like a good fugue. :)
Thanks! Me too ;)
This is very well-written!
On top of being a wonderfully constructed fugue, the engraving is lovely. Musescore can be very finnicky with even having two voices in a stave work, you mange three and it doesn't look wonky. Can't imagine how much fine tuning that took.
Thank you! Yes, some parts of the score were a bit tedious to format correctly.
Yes this! People often underappreciate the efforts people take to make a score look presentable
The ending was just so good. It's a very enjoyable work. Bravo
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
Muito bem, David. Obrigado.
oooh well done!
thanks!!
Brilliant!
Thé Art of the Fugue !
Bravo! I like that type of inovation. Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
Impressive mastery and a jubilant flow of tight, modern, counterpoint. I love exhilarating perpetuum mobile of these kinds. Kudos!
Thanks!
BRAVO!
Thanks!
This is fire! I added it to my fire classical music playlist
thanks!
@@dhliebowitzlistening to it again right now
Just learned a bit about fugues from twoset violin! So happy i found this. Thanks
Glad to have you here!
this fugue is fire!
Thanks!
How delightful and beautifully done. Impressive.
Thanks very much!
@@dhliebowitz I have only attempted one fugue and it was not as perfect or strict as yours. And I didn't modulate at all...as it was part of a much longer movement I felt that it was successful in maintaining the mood of the piece...I didn't let the baroqueness of the form take over my effort. I like how you slyly move away from this tendency.
Felicidades, magnifica fuga.
Gracias Antonio!
Nice work! At the risk of nit-picking, there are a couple of passages that would benefit from renotating so the upper 3 very independant melodic lines aren't smack-dab on top of each other. It would facilitate other folks learning to play this very imaginative and humorous piece if that were to occur.
thanks! score linked in the descriptions has those confusing engraving spots corrected :)
@@dhliebowitz Got it. This is so wonderfully insane an idea... makes my crusty ol' comp./theory prof.'s heart glad to see this kind of thing.
Amazing!
Thank you!
Paper normally runs out quicker than ideas. But I still gave this one a like.
Wspaniała fuga ! Gratulacje dla kompozytora🏆🥇
thank you!
Bravo!
Thanks!
Love it !
Fabulous!!
Thanks Elliott!
You should make a version of this for a string trio.
possibly!
It's brilliant, where can I get the sheet
I wish I could write fugues like this 😭
I would change that D in the seventh measure to avoid that unison. The rest i really like it!
0:34 Is it just my imagination, or is that a Bach Brandenburg Concerto 5 reference?
It sure is a BB5 reference, great catch!
I may not know music theory or understand half the comments, but I know good music when I see it, or hear it.
nice
THIS ARRANGEMENT IS LIT!
Though if i may ask, why use so many 16th and 32nd notes if you can use 8th and 16th notes while adjusting the tempo accordingly to 180 bpm (120 per dotted qtr)? While I do like this arrangement very much, all of the note handles and bars everywhere crammed into one place makes it quite confusing to read. In addition, each measure sounds like it has 2 measures of content, so it would make more sense to write it the other way. What do u think?
Thanks for the comment! I hear the theme more in 6/8 rather than 3/4 (as you seem to)...to each his own, I guess.
Cool. Do you any plan to upload some stuffs about how to compose music? I hope to learn a lot from you :))
Thank you! I haven’t planned anything of the sort, but a composition how-to video could be arranged :)
May I Download anywhere the sheetmusic?
www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/fugue-we-wish-you-a-merry-christmas-digital-sheet-music/22393490
Nice Brandenburg 5 quote in measure 16 ;)
Good catch!
alright, that's epic, but why on measure 19 do that lol. going to E minor, and why is that double sharp there?
(also a parallel octave) but this is great and I hope to write something as effective one day.
Don’t really know why I put that there, hah. Just sounds cool, I guess; glad you liked it!
Haha! Would be nice to use “the tidings we bring…” as a counter-subject in a double fugue.
Some of the modulations are bit wacky.
Overall good
Yes they are...just the way I like it :)
Genial!
Gracias!
This is really good musically! Very inventive. Is it physically playable? Some parts of it look unmanageable, but I wonder if you've been able to make it happen under your fingers
thanks man! the piece is 100% playable -- maybe a bit awkward in certain places but very much possible. have been thinking about learning it and uploading a recording...
We want the sheet music....This is class🙃
@@dhliebowitz Thank you so much😇
can you please post the sheet music?!?!?!
www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/fugue-we-wish-you-a-merry-christmas-digital-sheet-music/22393490
Ooh I wonder if we could perform a choral arrangement of this🤔
I've been thinking about making one, and now I just might...I'd be honored if it were to be performed!
@@dhliebowitz I‘m 100% sure I could find some people willing to perform it!
Bach is proud of you
I’d hope so!
I admit I don't know a lot about music, but aren't fugues supposed to be slower and loaded with minor chords, so they sound sad or depressed? 🤔
not necessarily! “fugue” is a structural/formal descriptor more than anything else - of course there are sad and depressing-sounding ones, but they come with all types emotional characteristics
How the heck did you get to C# minor and then Eb minor???
Nice stretto in m. 48!
Thanks! I love a good modulation, if you couldn't tell :)
Why the C double sharp in measure 19?
Thought I'd add something different there; maybe it doesn't work so well...
Bravo
It’s difficult to write a fugue !!
thank you!
It's possible to know who is author of this piece?
This fugue is an original piece by me
@@dhliebowitz congratulations 🙂
Nice, any reason you didn't put in the key signature?
This fugue is in C major; thus the key signature has no flats or sharps.
@@dhliebowitz Ah It looked like it was often in G or A, but I guess those were all borrowed
I love this. I would like to play it. Can I have the score?
Thank you Aaron, and that would be great! Here's a PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1qRf1097zuDhbHTwca72tpeTFFl-0HBJ6/view?usp=sharing
I'd love to see this on your UA-cam channel some day...I'm a big fan!
@@dhliebowitz Thanks so much! Wow small world. Haha. Thanks If I had discovered it a month ago, I cold have tried for this Christmas season. Maybe next year! :) (Of course I love Christmas music all year long so who cares about the date, right? )
@@AaronPetitPiano Super excited to hear your rendition!
I think you'll find it's not so playable, definitely not at this tempo.
@@shawncharton9416 This piece is very playable. At times the writing doesn't clearly indicate which hand should play which notes, but this fugue, in general, is quite approachable. It's about the same difficulty as many of the more technical Bach WTC fugues.
Bach would had been proud to see this.
This is so clever This guy must have a brain superior to a computer! And what a technique too!
It’s a midi playing, not a person.
David, do you happen to have sheet music? I would like to learn it. Where can I purchase it?
www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/1237316/Product.aspx?srsltid=AfmBOoqqbe5E4koUwoUfMaSP4RxxVkLiz1wKq5t3qlgCTk06i5LrltOq
The better one
Is this actually playable ?
Yes, it is actually playable. Similar to many Bach fugues from book 2. Excuse all the drama you see below; I myself am a bit confused how someone who claims to have played every chopin Etude dismisses this piece as overly difficult… :)
@@dhliebowitz Good point
@@dhliebowitz
Preach. I only discovered that whole thread today (initially a response to my comment). I am so upset by the toxicity of how he approached the whole thing and I may respond to him at some point. Completely playable from my point of view. What's ironic is he said it may not be and he only gave two or three examples of how it didn't feel good and the other garage of comments seemed to be more about dissing on the composition. In any case- the moments he brought up were indeed awkward, but have natural pianistic solutions (rolling the 10th, redistributing voices, etc.).
In another event- do you have a website, email, or other way of contacting you? I would like to be in touch soon regarding a performance of this piece and I have a few questions.
@@AaronPetitPiano Thank you for this comment, was hoping you'd see everything!
I see you have a website, is it ok if I submit a contact form through there?
I wrote a fugue on the jeopardy theme, but it's lost
hope you can find it/write a new one!
Did you just make a fugue without the organ?!?
no organ here!
@@dhliebowitz…would sound even better on a harpsichord??… I can just hear it.
Well done for sharing your creativity and genius!!
@@Jovocale absolutely, harpsichord would also sound great, thanks for the compliment!
Wait you have a second youtube account? waht
Nah just this one
this sounds like bach if he lived until the 19th century
What a compliment! Thanks :)
it is not a fugue but it is very nice
? This is a fugue
@@dhliebowitz Sorry, but vekkyo is right. This is not a fugue.
@@mikematics care to explain your reasoning? This is most definitely a fugue
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1:16 this modulation is so schubertian !
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