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Topic: Creating conterpointpieces and fugues on famous themes.  (Read 1510 times)

Offline sevencircles

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Creating conterpointpieces and fugues on famous themes.
on: July 02, 2011, 04:24:52 PM
I have recently tried to write counterpointpieces based on famous themes and itīs really fun actually.

Lambada worked great and Learning to Live by Dream Theater too, Baby Elephant Walk was a lot harder.

Does anybody know any composer that has done this a lot or a website with counterpointworks based on famous themes?
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Offline retrouvailles

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Re: Creating conterpointpieces and fugues on famous themes.
Reply #1 on: July 02, 2011, 05:25:15 PM
What do you mean, "counterpointpieces"/"counterpointworks"? Do you mean something like how someone wrote a 3 voice fugue on Lady Gaga's Bad Romance? I heard it and it was terrible.
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Re: Creating conterpointpieces and fugues on famous themes.
Reply #2 on: July 02, 2011, 05:30:51 PM
Quote from: retrouvailles on July 02, 2011, 05:25:15 PM
What do you mean, "counterpointpieces"/"counterpointworks"? Do you mean something like how someone wrote a 3 voice fugue on Lady Gaga's Bad Romance? I heard it and it was terrible.

I use the words pieces or works since I want to include counterpointcompositions that are not really fugues or canons for instance.


Similar to that fugue yes. I donīt think itīs terrible actually but itīs a matter of taste. ;)
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