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Title: Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Added: Mar 5, 2009
Author: DarkRaimundo
Duration: 9:27
Description:
Posibly my favourite Bach composition.The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a piece of organ music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach sometime between 1703 and 1707. It is one of the most famous works in the organ repertoire, and has been used in a variety of popular media ranging from film, to video games, to rock music, and ringtones.As indicated by the accepted title of the piece, the Toccata and Fugue is scored in D minor. It is not in dorian mode as the key signature supposes, as it was common practice in the Baroque period to write in leading tone accidentals rather than in the key signature. It begins with a single-voice flourish in the upper ranges of the keyboard, doubled at the octave. It then spirals toward the bottom, where a diminished seventh chord appears, built one note at a time. This resolves into a D major chord, taken from the parallel major mode.The subject of the four-voice fugue is made up entirely of sixteenth notes, with an implied pedal point set against a brief melodic subject that first falls, then rises. The second entry starts in the sub-dominant key rather than the dominant key. Although unusual for a Bach fugue, this is a real answer and is appropriate following a subject that progresses from V to I and then to V below I by a leap. A straightforward dominant answer would sound atonal and odd in a Baroque piece.After the final entry of the fugal melody, the composition resolves to the key's corresponding major, B-flat, that is held. From there, a coda is played as a cadenza much like the Toccata itself, resolving to a series of chords followed by arpeggios that progress to other paired chords, each a little lower than the one preceding, leading to the signature finale that is as recognizable as the Toccata's introduction.-Wikipedia
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Youtube Comments: 1859
PrInCeShAdE1 Says:
May 22, 2012 - i wish johann sebastian bach...WILL COME BACH...
LeoxSevered Says:
May 23, 2012 - This is insane......Bach really achieved mastery of both composition and actual playing.
amumatxu Says:
May 23, 2012 - The pedal work alone in this piece is incredible.
gibsonrulezz Says:
May 23, 2012 - hahaha so funny you must be a genius... :|
nonamefraktion Says:
May 24, 2012 - J.S. Bach was the Chuck Norris of the 18th Century ;)
AFROJASON666 Says:
May 24, 2012 - it annoys me so much that people always assosciate this with dracula!!!!!
Raven99664 Says:
May 24, 2012 - It's because the score for the Castlevania cames were heavily influenced by this piece and many others like it. Or atleast my generation. But it really is something you'd imagine any dark figure playing in a morbid castle. I'm sure it still annoys you, but its a great piece of nocturnal music.
Raven99664 Says:
May 24, 2012 - Concidering the time, this was Metal as Fuck
aharonfreeman Says:
May 24, 2012 - I *love* the low, low D after the main theme. It has so much power, and so much authority... and the diminished seven chord...It's almost like someone is in pain, and then the Picardy third is like then pain being relieved...Bach had so much command of music, and his instrument, and was able to make it tell a story... Absolutely beautiful.
AndrewMelodeath Says:
May 25, 2012 - Ill be Bach(crappy one liner)
0hobak Says:
May 25, 2012 - *exasperated sigh at my friends*No, this is not a 9minute long rip off of Dracula's theme song, GAWD.
vyxtouch Says:
May 26, 2012 - This is my ringtone when my Mother calls - we're not exactly on good terms.
Franco123Sector11 Says:
May 26, 2012 - I put this song when im serching for my keys
Granitoons Says:
May 26, 2012 - Phantom of the Opera I always imagine.
bbelilovsky Says:
May 26, 2012 - he wasn't trolling ffs
Thesunbursticeman Says:
May 27, 2012 - :) I love you dude!
jozojozic15 Says:
May 27, 2012 - Phantom of telethon :) by Roger Smith
AFROJASON666 Says:
May 27, 2012 - Which version? It wasnt in the original one with Lon Chaney
foxsykitten Says:
May 27, 2012 - i love this song
KinkallaFB Says:
May 27, 2012 - Slash .... lksdnbjvkbdbvsd
Mike Dawson Says:
May 28, 2012 - That wasn't trolling bro, that was something called a joke.
PPunktAlex Says:
May 28, 2012 - Oh, like the fightscenes in Darkseed 2?
Mike Dawson Says:
May 28, 2012 - It wasn't THAT funny.
Omfgwhtavid Says:
May 28, 2012 - 2:46 Orochimaru :D
NadiaDowton Says:
May 22, 2012 - Great isn't it!!!!