Toccata and Fuga in D minor (Pibrac organ)

[musicalis]

Hello
Here is the full version of my "retroccata" with its fuga,in hight quality mp3 (192 kbd/s).
8 minutes of music, 18 hours of work on my computer and some hours on my piano.
This music will be use as a demo by the the manufacturer of PIBRAC sample-set for MyOrgan and Hauptwerk, so you can hear a dry and a wet version.

For this music, I use :
GO : montre 8, bourdon 8, prestant 4, doublette 2, not acoupled to swell
Swell : flutes 8 et 4
pédalier : soubasse 16 + tirasse GO .

without reverb added : http://organ.monespace.net/autres/img265a.mp3
with reverb SIR 1011: http://organ.monespace.net/autres/img266a.mp3

As usual, if you like this music, tell me, i am happy when I receive your comments.

If you want to play it, ask me for the score.

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha J.P.

Aha, exquisitely wry

Cheerio,

CD

[musicalis]

Here is the You Tube video, with the scrolling score.

+ YouTube Video

If you want to post a comment about this video on you tube, please go to :

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=3KO8Nbud350&fmt=18

[Bombard]

So you took the them from the tocata und fuge in d-moll and changed it around a little. Thats alote like what Bach himself did, only he did it with other composers music.

Not bad, althogh its to close the the original, some parts are identical !!!!!

[musicalis]

Yes it is close to the original, but nothing is identical.
I try to explain how I proceed to compose.

Each time it is possible, I write my music in the reverse mode (backward). I do it measure by measures or several bars at the same time.
If a bar has approximately the same notes, my notes do not remain in the same order.
If a sequence of notes is the same, my movement is changed like a vertical or horizontal mirror.
If chords, cadences are at the same place, the harmony is changed.
All harmonical marches are different.
The thema of the fugue is very close, of course, but I did not wanted to do otherwise. Like Bach, this thema is build on two chords only, so it may sound similar, but it is not. I allway checked my notes so as to never write the same thing than Bach. Do you know, I have spent 18 hours on my computer to compose this music and about 6 hours on my keyboard to test each passage (and I compose very quickly).

What is exactly the same is the number of bars and the Key signature, the places and the voices where the subject or counter subject enter, the places where the registration change, the tempi variations.
If you find a whole bar, or only half a bar identical to Bach's work, please tell me where. The pdf score will be available soon on my web site.

[JONESEY]

Hi Jean-Paul,

As always, a wonderful piece. Thanks for sharing the info on your composition - very interesting.

Best wishes,
Jonesey.

[musicalis]

The score of this strange toccata is available in PDF format at :

http://organ.monespace.net/autres/img270a.pdf

10 pages - ~560 Kb to download

Great is printed in black, Positiv in dark red.

Have fun with this music.

[Drinklicafix]

Wow, that is very interesting...and really beautiful too.
Hats off to you Jean-Paul