Thursday, May 05, 2011

Lady Gaga's Bad Romance Written as a 3-Voice Fugue

Observe the compositional awesomeness of Giovanni Dettori, who has written a fugue with the melody from Lady Gaga's Bad Romance as the subject:



As if that wasn't cool enough, he's also offering the score as a free pdf file. For those who are still terrified by fugues, take a look at my MTH article on how to learn any fugue in 5 easy steps.

(Via Craig Tompkins)

5 comments:

  1. Thanks Chris - that was great! Good article too :-)

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  2. hasumedic7:49 AM

    That was completely awesome! It's sounds 10 times better than the original :P

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  3. What a coincidence to run across your blog post this afternoon! I just discovered this fugue earlier today, in this pipe organ performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsZ1nDjkEJU

    Thanks for the nice article on learning fugues!:)

    Best,
    Mona

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  4. Mona! That is pure awesomeness!

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