Be careful not to take it so fast you can't articulate each note crispfully. Remember that you are immitating an organ when you sing this piece, and an organ has a particularly crisp on set for each note.
@beatboxidontstop: Stick to beat box. Baroque classical music is defined by motor rhythm! Organ music (as spelled out in the title) doesn't have dynamics! You can't make your right hand louder than your left hand on an organ. That came later between 1750-1820 when the piano derived from the harpsichord. Bach (composer of this "Little Fugue") would have been HAPPY if rhythm, pitch, and good harmonies were top factors of your critique. Study up before criticizing young musicians.
i understand that this is a difficult piece, but i think they could have had more breath support and a little better tonal quality. maybe slowing it down would have made that easier to accomplish. other than that it was very nice
A slight technicality.... Organ music has dynamics. It is accomplished, as you say, by different registration on different manuals. But also it is accomplished by expression and crescendo pedals.
The crescendo pedals appear on organs with electronic registration, and add stops as the pedal is roatated forward. The expression pedals vary the dynamics by opening and closing louvres on an enclosed division.
Of course, these techniques are used more in French Romantic music than Baroque.
Also, beatboxidontstop is quite right that there isn't a lot of breath support going on to create proper timbre and resonance. That has NOTHING to do with dynamics and everything to do with proper vocal technique...I think you're right though that it is forgivable however given the age and skill level of the musicians performing this.
The notes in the higher ranges are especially painful for me to hear; they are almost devoid of support and sound thin, pushed, and weak. Correct me if I'm wrong, but regardless of palate and laryngeal openness, i.e., timbre and resonance, there is so little breath support that I hear that I can hardly deem it singing; it is more production of correct pitch and harmony. Perhaps that is the style; it is just that I don't see why big breath support and resonance couldn't be added to make it so
Is this style of vocal ensemble singing supposed to be performed in this weak, unsupported speaking tone?
There is zero chest resonance, and what results is a highly nasalized tone that doesn't have any inherent beauty. The musicality is entirely derived, it would seem, from pitch and harmony rather than a combination of that and timbre, resonance, and dynamics (of which I heard almost none). It may be that such quick pitch changes necessitate an ignorance of tone production, I don't know.
+_+...this piece is hard to sing...its harder than it sound.....we wanted to sing this for our competition next...altho this performance is not perfect...but its a great performance
I'm going to regret saying this, but as much effort as they put into this piece, as intricate as it is and as hard as timing and staying on your own part must have been, I really don't like it. It doesn't blend that well together, and the females sound airy and out of breath, causing note issues. The whole climax was just terrible compared to the rest of the song. I'm not saying it wasn't hard, just that I really didn't like it, couldn't enjoy it, and that's just MY opinion.
My school choir did this but we could never get it right enough to sing in a preformance.... It is WAY harder than it sounds AND I think it sounds pretty hard! I'm a tenor in my choir. Congrats to this choir on a job well done!
Original version for Pipe Organ is better :-). It must be difficult to sing something like this, so they have my respect, but it was not clean and Bachs music needs to be really clean and exact.
hurm...whatever you want to call the words are......hurm usually vocal ensemble dont have any lyrics......the words like badabada is just to make it easy for us to sing but the words also make it sound more neat
SLOW DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 it wouldnot be that much of a prob if you guys would stay together
STRAVOLTY 8 months ago
i like it just as much when it is fast as i do when it is slower. it gives you a different perspective on the piece. well done!
ghostcrab311 2 years ago
cool!
natashkast 2 years ago
it's like an ice cream cone that is barely staying together...really need to slow down
vivace737 2 years ago 3
Be careful not to take it so fast you can't articulate each note crispfully. Remember that you are immitating an organ when you sing this piece, and an organ has a particularly crisp on set for each note.
Other than that it sounded great! Well done!
prettyinpink7191 2 years ago 6
you need to sloooooooow dooooon ! thank you
donotserorator 2 years ago 3
Bach blijft altijd mooi, bravo !
duidelijkluid 2 years ago 2
their tone drives me insane, and also how fast they're going...
JuyoNi 2 years ago 2
Nice vocal interpretation of Bach's Fugue g-minor, BWV 578. In my mind they're a little too fast, but surely something special.
toxiconegro 2 years ago 4
i have to dance to this! is a really funky dnace! lol
jordrewnay 2 years ago
wow good job i like it
chandarlee 2 years ago
I love I think I wont my choir to do this song ...Amaziiiiiinnngggg!!!!
blackberry11341134 2 years ago
This is a very diificult song to perform, I had to for my voca exam. This was amazing. Good job
Hannahjesgo 3 years ago
i liked it but i think it would of sounded better if you guys weren't using a mike.. It sounds too crowded with the badabadasss..
brpimp 3 years ago
@beatboxidontstop: Stick to beat box. Baroque classical music is defined by motor rhythm! Organ music (as spelled out in the title) doesn't have dynamics! You can't make your right hand louder than your left hand on an organ. That came later between 1750-1820 when the piano derived from the harpsichord. Bach (composer of this "Little Fugue") would have been HAPPY if rhythm, pitch, and good harmonies were top factors of your critique. Study up before criticizing young musicians.
isaac1855 3 years ago 3
i understand that this is a difficult piece, but i think they could have had more breath support and a little better tonal quality. maybe slowing it down would have made that easier to accomplish. other than that it was very nice
ZARROC2010 3 years ago
A slight technicality.... Organ music has dynamics. It is accomplished, as you say, by different registration on different manuals. But also it is accomplished by expression and crescendo pedals.
The crescendo pedals appear on organs with electronic registration, and add stops as the pedal is roatated forward. The expression pedals vary the dynamics by opening and closing louvres on an enclosed division.
Of course, these techniques are used more in French Romantic music than Baroque.
dadinck 3 years ago
Also, beatboxidontstop is quite right that there isn't a lot of breath support going on to create proper timbre and resonance. That has NOTHING to do with dynamics and everything to do with proper vocal technique...I think you're right though that it is forgivable however given the age and skill level of the musicians performing this.
irishabel 2 years ago
The notes in the higher ranges are especially painful for me to hear; they are almost devoid of support and sound thin, pushed, and weak. Correct me if I'm wrong, but regardless of palate and laryngeal openness, i.e., timbre and resonance, there is so little breath support that I hear that I can hardly deem it singing; it is more production of correct pitch and harmony. Perhaps that is the style; it is just that I don't see why big breath support and resonance couldn't be added to make it so
beatboxidontstop 3 years ago
Is this style of vocal ensemble singing supposed to be performed in this weak, unsupported speaking tone?
There is zero chest resonance, and what results is a highly nasalized tone that doesn't have any inherent beauty. The musicality is entirely derived, it would seem, from pitch and harmony rather than a combination of that and timbre, resonance, and dynamics (of which I heard almost none). It may be that such quick pitch changes necessitate an ignorance of tone production, I don't know.
beatboxidontstop 3 years ago
Muy buena interpretación! Espectacular!!
Does anybody tell me how do i get the sheet music of this piece. Whose arrangement is? Amazing! Regards from Paraguay
Grancarluchi 3 years ago
zuuuuu gut!
RALsyatyou 3 years ago
acapello or (a)
jonnathanrocks 3 years ago
maybe im not the big musican, but this sounds nice in my ears :D really enjoyed it;). 5/5 :)
meluwulongtime 3 years ago
FANTASTIC!!! MY CONGRATULATIONS!!! What's the BWV of this piece?
ChalieChaplin 3 years ago
I believe it's 578. Fugue in G Minor (little).
melman74b 3 years ago
sehr schon
cincmi 3 years ago
ja sehr gut aber bach ist so fantastich
sailingforde04 3 years ago
+_+...this piece is hard to sing...its harder than it sound.....we wanted to sing this for our competition next...altho this performance is not perfect...but its a great performance
XfaCTor94 3 years ago
diarex......... i now love that word i dont even know what it is
hack5678 3 years ago
I'm going to regret saying this, but as much effort as they put into this piece, as intricate as it is and as hard as timing and staying on your own part must have been, I really don't like it. It doesn't blend that well together, and the females sound airy and out of breath, causing note issues. The whole climax was just terrible compared to the rest of the song. I'm not saying it wasn't hard, just that I really didn't like it, couldn't enjoy it, and that's just MY opinion.
jmie5 3 years ago 2
if they would have slowed it down just a little bit everyone could have hit their pitches
sokker16girl 3 years ago 2
Slowing it down would have robbed this particular piece of much of its power.
Toribus 3 years ago
Great! Really Amazing!
jamall0607 3 years ago
whats the name of this pop song? =)
darktimmme 3 years ago
You mean "Fugue"?
Anarchemitis 3 years ago 2
Not perfect but still amazing
KiwiFuel 3 years ago
My school choir did this but we could never get it right enough to sing in a preformance.... It is WAY harder than it sounds AND I think it sounds pretty hard! I'm a tenor in my choir. Congrats to this choir on a job well done!
ibnFadlan93 3 years ago
Original version for Pipe Organ is better :-). It must be difficult to sing something like this, so they have my respect, but it was not clean and Bachs music needs to be really clean and exact.
l000kin 3 years ago 2
This is the Swingle Singers' arrangement, isn't it?
Ignoranus 3 years ago
Hvala lepo za informaciju o delu, baš si ažuran camilo1862. Ako imaš jos nešto ovako lepo, objavi...
Thak you for the info about the piece.
Greetings from Serbia.
andrmolja 3 years ago
This was absoultely fantastic!!!!!!
5 stars
123Forte321 3 years ago
amazing :]
we used to do an excersise somewhat like this
thats great
harmony is perfect
well done :]
lillylovsmusic 3 years ago
Veoma lepo. Very nice! Whats the fugue and who is the author?
andrmolja 3 years ago
It's the 'Little' Fugue in G minor by J S Bach BWV 578 originally for organ solo. And they sing far better than I can play it!
camilo1862 3 years ago
ha cool
3mmy14505 3 years ago
sounds like a highschool choir.
treganalbers 3 years ago 2
This is great. :]
CherryBlossomBandit 3 years ago
Such great lyrics...
Seanthomson8888 3 years ago
erm...lyrics???/
XfaCTor94 3 years ago
nebenebenebenebenebenebenebe poom poom baaa daam daaa daaam laa laa daam laaa daaa daam pooom booomm booom labadababadababaadaba AHhahahhhhhhhhHhhhh
that means a lot man. dont diss it
imilkdude 3 years ago 3
hurm...whatever you want to call the words are......hurm usually vocal ensemble dont have any lyrics......the words like badabada is just to make it easy for us to sing but the words also make it sound more neat
XfaCTor94 3 years ago
Such heartfelt... Give me a minute, I think I'm going to cry.... *sniff*
Seanthomson8888 3 years ago
That was freaking awesome!!!!!!!
pauliede38 3 years ago
so harmonized....wow
XfaCTor94 3 years ago
they are going like the speed of light but they are pulling it off so well done
rivlet17 3 years ago
Very dificult! Bravo, nice music
flllutiste 3 years ago
they sound kind of tired and breathy and the sops go sharp, then flat on the high, then sharp again later.
apr28 4 years ago
net ganz sauber XD
matze83mz 4 years ago
Astonishing!One of the best renditions i have heard for the Organ Fugue!
8Ninja0Kitty8 4 years ago
Hats off! 5/5
6657christian 4 years ago
i second stephanie.:]
april in paris! pweaseee.
thanks for posting all these videos btw. they bring back good memories :]
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April in Paris is now up. So who is this?
OjosPardos217 4 years ago
favian fo shizzzle!
it is me :]]
thank youu for april in paris!
i miss you.
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yayy :]
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ohs0stefunny 4 years ago
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