The Art of the Fugue

My weekend got cut short when the boss called me into work last night, so instead of lazing around the house all night, it was business as usual in our little corner of the neighborhood.  No matter, I still have some energy left and it is more money on the check so why should I bitch, huh?  It is payday today, also, and no day with pay in it can be a bad day, can it?  Naturally I have lists to make and things to do, but hey, they'll get done in due time, of this I am very sure.  I have the dreaded laundry task in the morning.  I like to go early when they open and just get it over with in about an hour and a half.  So there you have my plan of the day, restock the larder and the medicine cabinet, run a few miscellaneous errands, then spend some relax time with the headphones on.  I do have an interesting bit of video for you today that is best described by the up loader in his video description which I quote here:

The Art of Fugue or The Art of the Fugue (original German: Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV 1080, is an incomplete masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685--1750). The work was most likely started at the beginning of the 1740s, if not earlier. The first known surviving version, which contained 12 fugues and 2 canons, was copied by the composer in 1745. This manuscript has a slightly different title, added afterwards by his son-in-law Johann Christoph Altnickol: Die Kunst der Fuga. Bach's second version was published in 1751 after his death. It contains 14 fugues and 4 canons. "The governing idea of the work", as the eminent Bach specialist Christoph Wolff put it, is "an exploration in depth of the contrapuntal possibilities inherent in a single musical subject."

You can find the complete play list for today's video performance by Herbert Tachezi at the organ on its YouTube page.  The run time of one hour and nearly 13 minutes should give you plenty of time to cruise through and genuinely appreciate these marvelous, muscly Men in Jeans, once again drawn from my Eyecatcher collections.  Now you guys have a fabulous Thursday and we will see you again tomorrow.  Until next time as always, Enjoy!