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My composition Chaconne and Fugue, completed last year, (fugue is based on the so-called B-A-C-H motif – a sequence of notes B-A-C-H honoring the name of the great master of fugues, J.S. Bach).

I have never studied music academically, and to be honest, I can’t even read standard sheet music. However, this video demonstrates how the piece is played, in case someone wants to learn it visually without sheet music. The video was made using the "See Music" software, which converts MIDI files into piano key animations.

By the way, that wig guy in the image is me! I asked ChatGPT to draw me in 18th-century baroque style, and the likeness turned out surprisingly accurate.

The term chaconne refers to a musical invention typically built on a repeating chord progression or bass line, over which variations are played. In my own piece, the same harmonic progression heard at the beginning repeats throughout the entire 12-minute composition, in various forms – which is why I titled it Chaconne (it also got inspiration from Bach's own Chaconne).

The fugue, on the other hand, is one of the most intricate forms of musical composition. It develops a theme (called the subject) in multiple voices that enter one after another, each at a different pitch, and then proceeds to vary and interweave the theme contrapuntally – meaning multiple melodic lines are played simultaneously in harmonic unity.

In the video, I’ve marked each appearance of the B-A-C-H motif in the fugue section, to help the listener better understand how a fugue works.