Gödel, Escher, and Bach (Spring 2001)
Music for Tuesday, Feb 27
 
 

Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue (JS Bach)
(click above to listen)

A fantasy has no particular form and sounds improvisational.

A fugue begins much like a canon, but more freely
and with more rules as to what tonal levels new voices may enter.

(Piece realized by John Sankey)

MIDI sequence(s) from the Classical Archives, by permission