Bach Mnemonics, the 48 Options

[anacrusis]

Anybody come across these? Here
My husband was just trying to play no VII from book 1 and quoted the mnemonic, so I thought I'd look them up...
who is playing which ones out there?

I'm still only on "He went to town in a hat that made all the people stare"

[maggiemay]

Great fun - I think I've only come across "John Sebastian Bach sat upon a tack" before.

There is a rejoinder to these, a comment on Prout's ideas, using the subject of the Great G minor organ fugue ...

"old Ebenezer Prout, you are a funny man,
what on earth inspired your silly little plan,
you make Bach's fugues as nasty as you can."

which seems a bit harsh given the humour of the ones in the original posting! but maybe there was a particularly bad edition of the G minor by him that inspired the comments.
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[fsharpminor]

Great fun - I think I've only come across "John Sebastian Bach sat upon a tack" before.

There is a rejoinder to these, a comment on Prout's ideas, using the subject of the Great G minor organ fugue ...

"old Ebenezer Prout, you are a funny man,
what on earth inspired your silly little plan,
you make Bach's fugues as nasty as you can."

which seems a bit harsh given the humour of the ones in the original posting! but maybe there was a particularly bad edition of the G minor by him that inspired the comments.
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Yes thats the fugue from Fantasia & Fugue in G Minor rather than the Prelude and Fugue BVW535.
It fits perfectly, and is very apt. Its an FRCO job that fugue is ! When I was only 15 I was asked to play that Fantasia and Fugue before a wedding !! I got through it , but not very well!