How to Write a Fugue

When learning counterpoint, you can create an okay sounding canon or a fugue. But there's such a distance between just following the rules and getting something as beautiful as what Bach was writing. And that's kind of the magic of this kind of music. You just need a few voices and you can make something amazing.

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