{"id":519,"date":"2007-09-27T08:36:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T08:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2007\/09\/27\/fugues-from-the-ridiculous-to-the-sublime\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T08:36:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T08:36:36","slug":"fugues-from-the-ridiculous-to-the-sublime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/fugues-from-the-ridiculous-to-the-sublime\/","title":{"rendered":"Fugues: from the Ridiculous to the Sublime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Via YouTube, I came across this little gem. Who would have thought that you could create a beautiful fugue from a Britney Spears song?<\/p>\n<p> Fugues are one of my favorite musical forms. There&#8217;s something magical (and something mathematical) about the way it sounds when a theme counterpoints itself. Anyway &#8211; here it is, the Danny Pi video &#8220;How to Write a Fugue&#8221;, featuring the &#8220;Oops, I did it again fugue&#8221;, from a theme by Britney Spears. <\/p>\n<p> Now that you&#8217;ve heard the &#8220;Oops I did it again&#8221; fugue, here&#8217;s a better example of the form, by the great master himself, Johann Sebastian Bach. A little slice of musical perfection to brighten your day. The video is a bit heavy on clever tricks (it&#8217;s the &#8220;Wedge Fugue&#8221;, so naturally, they use a bunch of wedge effects), but the music is stunning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via YouTube, I came across this little gem. Who would have thought that you could create a beautiful fugue from a Britney Spears song? Fugues are one of my favorite musical forms. There&#8217;s something magical (and something mathematical) about the way it sounds when a theme counterpoints itself. Anyway &#8211; here it is, the Danny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-8n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}