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  • @simplicissimus
    Simplicissimus
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    @reka
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    King’s singers, Deconstructing Johann
    ▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDZpZPFGzOA

    Les paroles ▻http://pedropizano.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/deconstructing-johann-by-the-kings-singers-at-leipzig-2006

    J. S. Bach had a little problem.
    J. S. Bach was in a fix.
    J. S. Bach couldn’t find an answer.
    What to do?

    I’ve written most of a rather fabulous work!
    Toccata, it’s in D minor, but now I’m feeling a bit of a jerk.
    I can’t think of what should come after it.

    Now, said his wife, who was resting up after her 33rd child.
    Johann, my dear, you should just go to bed.
    Something always comes up.

    Don’t be a twit!
    It’s a real crisis and I’m working to a deadline.
    What can I fit?
    What to fit after the great toccata
    Maybe it needs to be something faster
    I haven’t got a clue
    and in a week the piece is due
    I’m in a panic.
    I’m stuck like glue.

    Don’t get your knickers in a twist, Johann,
    ‘Those are only notes,’ you’ve always said.
    There’s only twelve so use your head
    How many arrangements of twelve notes can there possibly be?

    That’s a problem I don’t want to deal with
    How many permutations on C and D and E and F and G, A, B is a thing that I never heard of.
    You can leave that to Arnold Schönberg
    He is the person to do that twelve-tone thing

    No! No!
    It isn’t the answer, I haven’t the foggiest.
    What am I gonna do?
    I’m all in a panic
    Aaah, no.

    What can I do?
    I’ve finished my toccata but I have no fugue

    (Phone ringing)

    Ah… and now I’ve got the fugue!

    Simplicissimus
    • @reka
      Reka CC BY-NC-SA

      Merveilleux ! Allez, on profite pour donner quelques compléments dans la même veine ?

      Michel Legrand en 1972 présente les Swingle Singers (avec sa soeur Christiane Legrand) dans la “Badinerie” de Bach. AU passage vous admirerez les costards et les coupes de cheveux très 70s

      ▻http://www.ina.fr/video/I04336285

      Les Singles Swingers “modernes”
      ▻http://www.swinglesingers.com
      Dans une magnifique transcription de la fugue pour orque en sol mineur BWV 578

      ▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vonJhz2COck

      Et pour finir, la troisième et dernière référence, Glenne Gould dans un hommage à Bach présente une pièce de sa composition : “So you want to write a fugue ?” dans sa version originale. C’est une merveille.

      ►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZM4yxbE0ZE

      Les paroles ...

      So you want to write a fugue?
      You’ve got the urge to write a fugue,
      You’ve got the nerve to write a fugue,
      So go ahead and write a fugue that we can sing!

      Pay no heed to what we’ve told you,
      Give no mind to what we’ve told you,
      Just forget all that we’ve told you,
      And the theory that you’ve read.
      For the only way to write one,
      Is just to plunge right in and write one.
      So just forget the rules and write one,
      Have a try, yes, try to write a fuge.

      So just ignore the rules and try,
      And the fun of it will get you,
      And the joy of it will fetch you, I
      t’s pleasure that is bound to satisfy.
      So why not have a try?
      You’ll decide that John Sebastian,
      Must have been a very personable guy.

      But never be clever for the sake of being clever,
      For a canon in inversion is a dangerous diversion,
      And a bit of augmentation is a serious temptation,
      While a stretto diminution is an obvious solution.
      Never be clever for the sake of being clever,
      For the sake of showing off!

      It’s rather awesome, isn’t it?
      And when you’ve finished writing it,
      I think you’ll find great joy in it (hope so)...
      Well, nothing ventured nothing gained they say...
      But still it is rather hard to start.
      Let us try.

      Right now?
      We’re going to write a fugue right now!

      Reka CC BY-NC-SA
    • @paulo
      Paulo

      Détail : la « touche » des swinglesingers n’était pas réellement 70’s... Là-dessus ils n’étaient pas au parfum, plutôt début 60.

      Paulo
    • @simplicissimus
      Simplicissimus

      La vidéo des King’s singers est extraite d’un concert de 2 heures à Leipzig en juillet 2000 pour le 250ème anniversaire de la mort de J. S. Bach
      Le concert complet (avec Loussier, of course ) est là
      ▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz1lYc3NfoM

      Et puisqu’on ressort les « classiques », comment passer à côté de Switched-on Bach (1968) de Walter/Wendy Carlos ▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos

      ▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-XBqOqHDsg

      Simplicissimus
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