Slacking Sunday (or saturday...)

It's really bad, I know.

I should be studying in preparation for my exams, which is in a month's time, but yet I am on the computer for all of yesterday and a few hours today. Can't help it. Will definitely put in a little quality time with my books within the next 2 days before I head to Budapest.

But before that, let me show you a find that I had just found!
I was pottering around youtube when I stumbled across accapella groups. So, by a stroke of curiousity, I decided to youtude The King's Singers. Well, for those who don't know who they are, they are a bunch of guys who sing together but on a smaller scale than a choir. They are pretty fabulous, as fabulous as singing accapella goes, and their songs make a good lullaby. But here, the one I found, is really funny and interesting.

Check it out!! Especially the guy who can sing a soprano!



"Deconstructing Johann"

Lyrics:

J. S. Bach had a little problem.
J. S. Bach was in a fix.
J. S. Bach couldn't find an answer.
What to do?

I've written most of a rather fabulous work!
Toccata, it's in D minor, but now I'm feeling a bit of a jerk.
I can't think of what should come after it.

Now, said his wife, who was resting up after her 33rd child.
Johann, my dear, you should just go to bed.
Something always comes up.

Don't be a twit!
It's a real crisis and I'm working to a deadline.
What can I fit?
What to fit after the great toccata
Maybe it needs to be something faster
I haven't got a clue
and in a week the piece is due
I'm in a panic.
I'm stuck like glue.

Don't get your knickers in a twist, Johann,
'Those are only notes,' you've always said.
There's only twelve so use your head
How many arrangements of twelve notes can there possibly be?

That's a problem I don't want to deal with
How many permutations on C and D and E and F and G, A, B is a thing that I never heard of.
You can leave that to Arnold Schönberg
He is the person to do that twelve-tone thing

No! No!
It isn't the answer, I haven't the foggiest.
What am I gonna do?
I'm all in a panic
Aaah, no.

What can I do?
I've finished my toccata but I have no fugue

(Phone ringing)

Ah... and now I've got the fugue!

From Wiki:
Toccata (from Italian toccare, "to touch") is a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard or plucked string instrument featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virtuosic passages or sections, with or without imitative or fugal interludes, generally emphasizing the dexterity of the performer's fingers.

In music, a fugue (pronounced /ˈfjuːɡ/) is a type of contrapuntal composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of parts, normally referred to as "voices".