"I'm a Barbie girl" but it's a three voice fugue! 🎹 🎤 - Josep Castanyer Alonso
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2022
- 🎹 Sheet music transcription: payhip.com/b/n7A96
After the overwhelming success of the Swedish ice-cream truck fugue ( • Writing and playing a ... ), it was about time to transform yet another famous tune into a fugue.
Few pop songs are as catchy as Aqua's hit "I'm a Barbie girl". Here, it becomes a three part fugue, following its traditional structure and backed with some explanatory graphics.
A fun summer project, an homage to pop music of the 90's and a way to get back into piano! 😀
Piano, audio and video edition, composition: Josep Castanyer Alonso
Dear commenters 😄,
I understand that you might feel like you have been struck by a stroke of verbal dexterity, but I must inform you that the pun “I am a _Bachbie_ girl” has already been made approximately 400 times in this comment section.
For the sake of Bach, please comment something else...! 😅🤣
☺️/Josep CA
Ok then, Johan Sebarbie Bach it is
Respected creator, next time get ready yourself for make a Liszt of that piece, probably a rhapsody!
And is runs into another level of punning comments.
Just like:
"Is on the top Liszt now"...
Yep, you vocalizing correctly that name, when you say "list".
Now I wish someone would write a KENtata
I’m a bachbie man
you need to use your talents for something less sAcRiLeGiOuS than this 🤣🤣
Who knew "barbie girl" was actually a Bach piece? Impressive and truely exhilarating, bravo!
Bach-bie girl?
I did. The circle of fifth progression is Bach‘s favourite😂
Bach MASTERpiece
@@muriloamorim2731HAHAHAH
I knew
Jeez, I've never heard a joke piece as well-composed as this. This is absolutely crazy that it gives me goosebumps. Really can't complain much
Thank you very much for the nice comment! 😊 /Josep CA
it is never a joke, my friend. Never.
Or maybe it's all a joke after all
@@gonzalodossantos3176This is deep.
@@lowlifeuk999 maybe the jokes were the friends we made along the way
Bach liked to make mashups of random folk songs as a kind of joke and entertainment for his guests.
He absolutely could've written this if a time traveller shown the song to him
Have you heard Hammerklavier sonata of Beethoven? There are some fugues especially in final part could be the example of this fugue.
will he even like this one as someone in 17th century
@@l.p.1152 I mean, annoying songs have existed since the birth of mankind
hmm, anyone checked how Back looked like when he was young ? Maybe we have a time traveler or reincarnation here with Joseph :D
As someone who was a guest of bach in 17 s i totally relate to this
Holy shit. The production value on this blows me away. This absolutely deserves more views than this.
Thanks! 😊😊😊
A absocertainluty!!!!!!
Absolutely!
I think this will get a lot of views. I've already watched it 10 times.
Deserves an oscar
Bye I’m enrolling in music composition class to do exactly that
An absolutely right decision. 🙃
Plot twist: they don't teach you how to write fugues in music composition class
@@idrisbalavakos curriculums in France are a little different… we mainly learn to imitate historical styles in chronological order, and starting from 5th year we explore forms such as theme & variations, sonata form and… fugue. It’s quite demanding and I’m only halfway through 2nd year, but I’m enjoying the ride so much ☺️
@@idrisbalavakos pep organ bs spotted
@@idrisbalavakos I can't think of any formal musical education institute that drops fugue in their composition curriculum, fugue is a monumental form.
All joking aside, this is a REALLY helpful way of explaining this kind of music to someone who might not understand it.
Thanks! That was its first purpose! ☺️/Josep CA
Lol, like me!
exactly: the understanding of musical structure and thematic development depends on how well the audience knows the theme. With a familiar theme the audience does not need to think or pay attention to detect all the occurrences of the theme and variations. And in this case, it is really well written and executed. And it is not that "Barbie girl" was a Bach piece, but that we have uncovered the inner Barbie of Bach.
I love how the visuals inform how the arrangement respects the structure of a fugue as well as what's going on with the harmony/chord progressions. That's some wonderful editing. Love the playing and arrangement too.
Thank you! Making visualizations of classical music through video graphics is one of my favourite things. 😊
@@JosepCastanyerAlonso it shows elegance and fluency as the way you played. What a pleasure! And how brilliant!! Thanks :)
Thanks to you for watching! 😊 /Josep CA
Agreed. That's the best part of the video imo. Getting to see the written descriptions of the things I've heard in so much Bach is fascinating.
I hated the “visuals”, I would have liked to see the video as is without all the annoying text
Blown. Away. I wish my Baroque-loving, pop-hating mother was alive so I could blow her mind with this.
What a funny little fugue! I must say, in the whole "but it's a fugue" UA-cam subgenre it's quite rare to find one with such exquisite counterpoint. As a composer myself I think it would have been nice to hear the subject a bit more, in its non-variated form; but as I am listening to it again I think maybe it was the right choice, for a piece of this length. But great writing nonetheless. Also a brilliant interpretation. (sorry for bad English, I'm Italian)
I concur that the counterpoint is exquisite; it's a delightful and short video/work. However, I also agree entirely that the subject should be more present in its original, non-varied form. Having seen the length of the video (126 seconds), I was astonished at how long the subject was relative to the whole composition; One could easily include a whole new development to keep the piece more "proportional".
As a composer you want to hear the original subject a bit more; as someone who has lived through the 90s I disagree, I want to hear Barbiegirl LESS, AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE CAN IT BE NEVER AGAIN PRETTY PLEASE?
Your English is bloody spot on, man, no need to apologise
@@SenselessUsername Touché, touché....
@@SenselessUsername - While I go look up the original video to play in the background for a bit while I wreck things in Genshin Impact. It takes all kinds. XD
I swear, as a bachbie girl, I saw you grow extra fingers whilst playing.
Exquisite.
I don't understand why your channel doesn't have 1 Million subscribers yet..... Come on UA-cam algorithm... Do your thing! Make this guy famous!
Well he definitely deserves it but he has only 5 videos…
To make it big he has to post tons of videos which will help reaching to lots of people
@@artisticnature5491 Fair enough. But this one video deserves at least 50 k followers. This guy is so talented. I want to see more works from him. So gifted
I think the algorithm is already doing its magic, I mean most comments are less than a week old and this video was posted 7 months ago
I enjoy the musical term counterpoint, it makes it feel like the fugue is just two voices arguing with each other
... or interacting... complementing... that's the art of baroque music
It’s usually more than two voices
Two voices is the bare minimum for a fugue. It's most often four voices. So even more arguing going on. Though very respectful, with everyone acknowledging the topic of conversation.
Wow. Imagine a whole clasical concert like this.
Sign me up!
Maybe not live, but if I continue making those, I will be able to produce a CD soon! 😂 Greetings /Josep CA
I would never have thought I would once listen to such a "Barbie girl" on a Steinway 🤪 amazing!
Listening to this on repeat. Longer version pls
Or flute and piano version… 😮😜 I am really happy you like it!
Your sense of humour is truly inspiring. Great job at everything, this is perfect !
Thank you very much for the kind comment! ☺️/Josep CA
Brilliant, Josep! If only I could forget the barbie girl "earworm" because this, yours, now is actually seriously nice music.
Johann Sebastian played night concerts in (sort of despised) coffee houses - pubs serving that novelty drink coffee. The German name for these worldly concerts was "Nachtmusik" (night music). So Wolfgang Amadeus referenced to that when he wrote "Eine kleine". And then the upcoming Romanticists referenced the night music with their Romanised translation "Nocturne", turning the "music" part into a silent assumption. In the evolution, Nachtmusik as nocturne turned from saloon-fähig into "salonfähig" to stick to German idiom ("salon" references the most posh room in a home where important guests would be entertained and "fähig" means "capable" or "suited for") with Chopin's performances in the palais de ville homes of the Paris well-to-do.
Probably JSB's Nachtmusik performances were a side job to earn some additional money. Or JS felt them as his Christian duty to enlighten the sinners in these pubs.
Well capable of musical jokes, I imagine JSB to do something like this to draw attention and then potentially transition into one of his Christian works as justification of the court composer and church choir director playing for the sinners in the pubs. And then go home to make sure his wife was pregnant 24/7 until she died and got replaced - that was a Christian mission after all.
We should not forget that many music pieces in JSB's time actually referenced court dances and that a majority of court dances again had their origin in "vulgar" folk dances that likely had been brought to courts by young "noble" men hanging out in vulgar places with access to paid carnal knowledge and then bringing home these dances potentially initially as parodies. A man like JSB in his time very likely understood such history that got covered up in history by not documenting, by not passing on. But enough proof exists, still, in archives.
You see, the barbie girl thing, even in my 1960's hippie mind, in the 90s, was such an annoying example of the "unbearable lightness" that can be, that we need to dig deep to provide context to this beautiful escape (fuga) from that unbearable lightness.
👏👏👏
I'm litterally laughing at how this sounds so great xD
Now I want to learn the art of fugue
This is beautiful, made me cry tbh
Thank you! ❤️
Why lol
Real genius. It’s worth multiple listenings
I ended up here because I wanted to know WTF a fugue is and having a well-known earworm track converted into one helped me understand. Thank you.
OMG that look and that finish one laughed loudly the minute solid. Please. This is incredible 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I loved the way you put the commentary! a super potent dose of musical theory 😂
I love music but there is no way I could have taken the years it takes, to live breath eat and sleep it to learn everything and all about it! My complete and utter respect and admiration to all professional musicians who dedicated their lives to being as perfect as they are!!
today i thank the youtube algorithm for recommending me this masterpiece
Ummm not only is this wonderful. It's played extremely well. You rock
This and the one in the style of various composers represent an INCREDIBLE amount of work and level of skill. Absolutely brilliant!
I'm a Barbie girl,
in a contrapuntal world,
this theme's elastic
it's fantastic!
He's the total package. CGI, sound, looks. Plus a polyphonic musical composition in which one or more themes is imitated in successively entering voices.
This is actually amazing.
This is unbelievably good. Mind. Blown. The composition is one thing. But the vid editing is another. Well done.
Thank you so much! 😊 /Josep CA
Holy s****. Now i’ll never forget that song! Impressive
Thank you very much! 😊 /Josep CA
Show them what means to practice 40 hours per day man! Great job! A 3 voice invention!
Thank you for your kind words! 😊 /Josep CA
Finally, one of these videos that doesn't suck.
This is not Bach this is Josep Castanyer Alonso!
Incredible composition, it sounds like a more refined version of Bach's works with your own twist and spice added.
A lot of personality. Great work!!!
Thank you for making these, your fugues are one of the best I have ever heard.
Thank you! ❤ I am glad you liked it so much! 😊/Josep CA
i went straight to my guitar and played an f minor after that thank you very much;)
great work! the composition is stellar, and the playing is flawless.
Thanks!
Hilarious!
My grandfather was a pianist, and he would occasionally do a thing where he would play through a piece before bedtime, but would omit the last chord and go to bed. Eventually one of his kids would run down and play the tonic. You just reminded me of that story.
@@OrdinaryLatvian ha! that's awesome:D
@David Wallin I had to do that, too! I'm in a band, and we finish one of our songs with a 'dah dah dah dah-dah, dah-dah' ending, but we leave the final note off. I heard a local band do it years ago, and thought it was hilarious. It's equaly hilarious for me when we do it, because nine times out of ten our drummer can't help himself, and hits the final beat!
Dexter Gordon did it that way for one of his choons, too.
@@BackToTheBlues your drummer lacks discipline haha
I appreciate a genius.
that 40hz hum really adds flavor to the piece
Amazing. Completely transformed into a melody I could listen to for hours. I can't articulate how the sound 'moves' and makes me feel. Stuff like 0:54 and1:08, just feels magical. My grandmother tried to teach me piano. She was strict on 8 year old me. Not a kid friendly person. The piano became an object of hate. A decade later my largest regret is not continuing to learn nor taking music in highschool so I could say least learn some theory.
You can undo the regret by studying music now. It is never too late you know
Thank you for sharing this story. I hope some readers will learn from it, so that they allow children to be playful! Let the piano be an expensive toy, more than it is an expensive piece of furniture. It is more robust than most other instruments, so there is barely no excuse!
Here in Norway, an organization within the main church has even begun arranging organ clubs, where children down to about 5-6 years old get to play several church organs a few times every year. Even the largest, most complex and expensive ones. Fun and educative for the children/youth, and great long-term prospects for recruiting to organist positions.
I am glad that, despite the harsh start, you now find magic in music. I guess it is too late to become the new superstar, but some skills and knowledge can surely be acquired by adults too. For maximal joy and healing of "wounds", maybe you will benefit from a playful approach now?
@@EliasHasle She wanted me to learn too much too fast. Learning anything with time constraints isn't fun. Especially to a child. I am trying to rekindle my passion. I'm ok with nor being super talented or performing for an audience. My wish is that when I am also old and grey, my grandkids get to experience the wonders of this instrument. The same way I was originally taken by it.
Look into the different types of cadences if you’re interested! A cadence is basically a resolution of musical tension, which happens at both of the time stamps you listed and it can feel magical :) 0:54 is a Phrygian half cadence and 1:08 is a perfect authentic cadence!
Really impressive musicianship.
I am really glad you like it! 😊 Greetings /Josep CA
Wait! All THIS talent & he’s cute, too!?!? No, not fair!!
this is the most genius thing ive seen all week
You have taken a paint-by-numbers and turned it into a Mona Lisa.
If a song is catchy it must have something good…but in this case definitely not the lyrics! 😂
king EXCUSEME HOW DID YOU DO THIS LOL and i love the explanations🤣🤣🤣🤣this was literally beautiful! So much skill! good Lord, you gifted us all! /gen
Thank you so much for your comment, dear Avital! ☺️ /Josep CA
I'm a baroque girl in a baroque world
As a composer (and lover of Bach,) I wish I could give this more than one like. And that doesn't even start talking about the execution! Nice stuff.
Let's hope this goes even better than the Ice Cream truck then 👊 Really nice work!! 🙌
Tack Isak!
All those years ago when people were mocking me for loving the song, I knew, deep down in my heart, that somewhere, someday, the song would inspire great music..
(ok, I embellished a little bit on the story, well, a lot)
Fugue-ing awesome 🤘
Would just like to remind everyone that this guy is a cellist professionally. Clearly a lot of talent and self investment, and it is paying dividends
This is stunning! I especially love the editing-in of the theory info. Wonderful composition. I'm a huge sucker for baroque flavors in general and especially fugue pieces so this gave me fabulous nostalgia for my choir days. 😊 Now I gotta go listen to an oratorio or something haha, got me in the mood
Have you listened to "So want to write a fugue?" perchance? It is also written in the style of Baroque music and it features a choir.
@@tmpwow4282 I had never heard that piece, and it's delightful! Thank you so much for suggesting it! Also searching it up caused me to rediscover "the Ontological Fugue" which is of course stellar, and it turns out someone just recently published a piece called "How to (Not) Write A Fugue" which I also greatly enjoyed, so triple thanks for your recommendation 😂 I wonder what it is about the fugue form that inspires so much meta humor!
When you're a classical pianist or prog rock keyboardist and you're asked to play a popular song
Why do you have only 2 and something thousand followers????? This deserves at least few millions
Well, I wouldn’t say no to that! 😀 Greetings /Josep CA
"Piano noises" yeah, OK, I lost it 😂🤣
Barbie girl is masterpiece. Whenever it plays in a party, club or bar everyone loses their mind. hahaha
I was once in a big university library and to let everyone know it was closing a guy sang Barbie Girl over the PA. Magical
@@animatrix1490 hahahah that’s funny
In this version you can hear very pure how well composed the “Barbie theme” is, this is why the original song was so successful and is still a catchy tune.
This has actually tought me more music theory in one and a half minutes than my teacher got into me in several years. Thank you!
You're onto something there. Keep it up and I guarantee 100k+ subs by the end of 2023.
I humbly bow my head before so much musicality! Bach would have immediately grabbed his quill to write a number of elaborate pieces of music for this brilliant multi-talent. We want more!
This is actually crazy good, and full of humour ! Congratulations 😆
That's insane, and impressive
Thank yoU! 😊 /Josep CA
i’m a barbie girl
in a baroque wo-o-orld
To everyone asking for more: there is more and more keeps coming regularly! ❤ Feel free to check another fugue video I just made on the "Angry Birds" theme: ua-cam.com/video/H7NRVbTIDKw/v-deo.html 🦉 🦉 🦉
Hi, is there another version of this where it's just your song without the intro? The video is great of course, just wondering so I can put a song-only cut on my several-playlists-I-want-this-on lol. (Please forgive me if such a cut is easy to find and I just didn't succeed at finding it)
@@ItsAsparageese Hm, there is only this video on UA-cam, unfortunately…
@@JosepCastanyerAlonso No worries, I'll use this one then 😁 Thanks so much for the response!
Really glad that you enjoy it enough to put in in your playlist, thank you! 😊 /Josep CA
@@JosepCastanyerAlonso Oh yeah of course, I love reinterpretive covers in general! Loads of people do! Thanks for your hard work in making it 😁
This is hilarious thank you 😂
I'm speechless, I think the compliment I'll offer you, is this could have been Bach's piece, if someone travelled back in time and showed him "I'm a Barbie Girl". Very well done, impressive.
I knew there was something more in that song, more profound and compelling.
Best fugue in ages
Absolutely beautiful, hope you can put more of these out!
Now I’ve got this song stuck in my head.
Damn, you never missed counterpoint class, did you? This is wonderful, thank you!
Wow, this is so beautiful!
That was brilliant and completely satisfying…and just plain fun!
Thank you very much for this gift!!!
God damm, Super well done!! With everything:)
Tackar! 😁
Hur lyckades du få grunewaldsalen för dig själv??
Jag jobbar i Kungliga Filharmonikerna så vi kan boka lokaler i Konserthuset.
This was amazing!! I’m impressed by anyone who can write or play a fugue!
Bach is definitely laughing and proud of you ! AMAZING
this is actually so educational
Excellent playing and editing!
Extremely nice composition and performance. A wonderful mix of baroque fugue with pop hit! Interesting choice to use use retrograde motion over inversion. I don't think I've ever really heard a retrograde subject in a fugue until now, probably because it's much harder to detect without being informed. It's brilliant that you were able to make such good use of it, however.
brilliant. absolutely brilliant!
Genial Josep, tot un mestre, els meus respectes.
Moltes gràcies! ☺️ /Josep CA
That was absolutely riveting! I loved the written explanations of what you were doing.
Wonderful! I love your videos!
Keep it up, this is amazing!
Perfectly matches the style of Well Tempered Clavier. Great job.
Man, if this was in the movie i would've considered going. This is next level my friend.
Fantastic - and extremely educational, too!
Wonderful! Thanks for your work on this.
Glad you like it! 😊 /Josep CA
This is what barbie girl sounds like when it's stuck in my head.
omg id love the transcription of this
pretty fugueing cool
Best version ever! ❤
This is amazing.
Thank you! 😊 /Josep CA
Brilliant! Simply, brilliant! Thank you.
Wow very cool! Without the intro this would go straight into my music playlist!
I love your creativity and the mastery you have in counterpoint. You have a new subscriber and admirer of your work. I hope you continue composing!
That should be at a pipe Organ not a Stupid piano !
When the PIPE ORGAN Sounds, ALL Instruments Shut up !
These are wonderful!
Wow, how wonderful I have no words
Awesome job 🎹🔥💖🎹
Thank you very much, glad you like it, @LadanzaTube! 😊 /Josep CA