Counterpoint gave me a headache!

[Rach3]

I love counterpoint! I start off practicing by sightreading unfamiliar Bach fugues, even before I work on my usual fugue (E major bk. II at the moment). And today I got too much sleep, started praciticing around 23:00. Then I worked a bit on the Hammerklavier fugue for fun (Carish Urtext ed. has a wrong note! m.7 RH F# should be double-sharped), before moving on to op. 111, to work on the fugue-like stuff in the C minor movement. Now I have a counterpoint headache! Took tylenol and I'm surfing the forum because I got nothing better to do. I should have seen this coming, between Bach, hammerklavier and the Diabelli variations (more fun sightreading exercizes!) over the past few days.

-R     a     c    h      3   (whose name is spelled out in stretto)

[Rach3]

Update - I'm fine now! Still awake. Playing video games to improve hand-eye coordination. it's extremely important to be well-coordinated when playing, er, arpeggios.

[jlh]

-R     a     c    h      3   (whose name is spelled out in stretto)

uh, don't you mean augmentation?

[Rach3]

Yes, I would have meant augmentation if I had been in my usual state of mind.

-Rach3
   Rach3
     Rach3 (there's stretto for you!)

[mound]

glad you're feeling better 

I have never experienced such a headache, but I do love playing counterpoint. It just twists my mind around in so many ways that classical and romantic pieces just don't even approach.

[jlh]

Counterpoint, you have some fans that love playing you... what's your secret?

[counterpoint]

Counterpoint, you have some fans that love playing you... what's your secret?

There's no secret 

Just some melodic lines, and because it looks so simple (it is simple!), people make weird theories about it / me