Bach - Little Fugue in G-minor BWV578

From Bach Famous Transcriptions, Leopold Stokowski.

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[Loveliesful]

Is it bad that I thought of Catherine when I heard this?

[brucethedrummer]

eargasm

[MrOboey]

7 people don't play the oboe

[ilovechopin11]

I think I died and went to heaven.

[DevilishGuts]

This Stokowski guy is the one that worked for the songs in Disney's Fantasia =D also came here because of Catherine

[insaniteh]

@newmusic333 I'm also learning this fugue on organ at the moment, and personally think it's best played with no stop changes and works just fine as a quiet piece. That's just my personal opinion though - plenty have done it with hefty crescendo, I'm sure!

[insaniteh]

@newmusic333 You can change stops with your feet. There are pistons (the buttons above/below the keyboards) that allow you to program in different stop registrations. You can either hit a keyboard piston while playing or while a voice is sustaining a note/quiet, or you can hit one of the foot pistons - they're above the pedals and shaped like small nubs and easy to hit without breaking tempo. The pedal section isn't complex enough for this to cause much trouble in most sections.

[newmusic333]

@insaniteh So do you think a player can gradually build and change dynamics while playing a 4 part fugue with stops? If you can change them while all hands are used, I will be easily persuaded by your claim. Unless, you can change stops with your feet that is.

Correct me if I am wrong, have you played this fugue on the organ yourself?

[insaniteh]

@newmusic333 I'm aware this response is a month old, but how does the organ not have the option of dynamics? Any organ with stops (anything 16th century onward) has the ability to change dynamics easily. How smoothly a crescendo goes is based on how applicable it is to the piece and the organist's talent.

[yforgeau]

@adderaX

fu  as fü in german or tu ( you ) in french

gue as in rogue

[muulka]

@adderaX Like feug. eu as in euthanasia. Hard g. =D

Took some thinking as to how to spell it phonetically...