A friend sent this to me today...

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsZ1nDjkEJU

Sheet music here: http://www.giovannidettori.com/LadyGagaFugue.pdf

I am going to be pushing it hard for wedding couples this year !

I still prefer Stefano Bertuletti's Fugue on "Michelle, my belle" - though wedding couples probably wouldn't know what to make of it.

Now that is clever. No doubt that will go down a treat with the wedding couples.

I'd probably find this a vast improvement on the original, if I'd ever heard it.


Actually, maybe I have heard the original but I just don't remember it.

Thanks for this. Always nice to receive a freebie.
I know nothing of Lady Gaga apart from not wishing to take fashion advice from her.
Would you use this to bring 'em in or to send 'em out?

Before the ceremony perhaps, or during the signing...

Pianist and Lady Gaga fan here gatecrashing the Viva Organ forum. This is brilliant! I intend to play it at a future forum event.

Thanks very much for sharing this.

Jon

It si based on "Bad Romance"



it is very catchy - almost an ear worm. You probably would remember it.



Sounds better on piano than organ. It is easier to give the voices a different character, and to use dynamic differences to clarify the counterpoint.

Also if it is played a bit quicker (than the organ version posted above) then it is more recognizable.

...Fancy suggesting that married life is the beginning of a 'bad romance'

Great stuff for youth services and family services, especially if you need to argue the case for the Organ.

Fighting talk in the Viva Organ forum!

Yes, and you've usually got at least 2 keyboards to choose from as well as a few stops.

Keys are not touch sensitive, however... I agree it is horses for courses. Personally I think this would sound better on the Organ as you can do mock/gothic extra theatrical better on the organ, however there are technical things that are in favour of the piano too.

I wonder what it would sound like on the harpsichord?....

These are all very different instruments. Pipe organs certainly have their place in a Church Surrounding due to their ability to Command a sound space.

Like two skeletons ... .... in a dustbin of course

I thought the quote had more to do with leud acts and tin roofs very apt for a bad romance...

Now that's something I'd love to see and hear!

P4

Some tunes are both catchy AND eminently forgettable!
Sounds like a contradiction but perfectly possible for me.

I've no idea who publishes it or how to get a copy and I only know it from a CD by Martin Setchell. There doesn't seem to be any complete performance available on the net. The best I could find is the first 28 seconds here: http://www.musicload.de/martin-setchell/fu...ngle/10191291_4 - it's so brief you wonder why they bothered (click the loudspeaker under the CD image). Amazon has an equally uninformative snatch from the middle of the piece. It's a clever piece - very chromatic - but definitely in the cerebral rather than blockbuster category.