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March 16, 2005 at 2:27 PM

Did 4 hours practice today. Yay! I like achieving my targets :)

I did some work on my Bach at the piano today, very interesting. I played the two voices with seperate hands. It was interesting to realise that "hey, now the lower part has the melody" instead of going "ok, double stop, a few notes on the ging, and back to the melody." After doing that, the Bach came out rather clearly, I thought.

I'm having a look into the Fugue. Not as in a Fugue from one of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas, but Fugues in General. I'm wanting to write one as part of a composition that I'm preparing for my Church's 10th Anniversary, so I thought "well, If i'm going to write a Fugue, I best know what it involves." I was going to get Bach's Kunst Der Fuge (The Art of Fugue) but they only had it in German. Not much use to me. But I found a book which looks interesting and should tell me a fair bit about it, plus i've got a couple of Anthologies completely of Fugues, one Up to Bach, and one from Bach onwards. SO I shall be having fugal fun over the next couple of weeks.
I'll let you know once the piece is completed. It's being performed in November, so It'll be up on my site after that (Ben Clapton, Violinist and Composer). I've got a pianist who's going to prepare Una Principessa for me, and we'll record that soon. That'll be up on the website. I'm planning for a revamp of the site around June/July, as it's geting a bit dated, and the banners are mostly wrong now. Time for new navigation. :)

Well that's it for now, time for me to go read another chapter on the history of Fugues.