Everybody loves a good fugue. Well okay, maybe not everybody, but at the very least a fugue is a dazzling display of intertwining lines, harmonious counterpoint, and melodic invention.

Which is why it’s so interesting to hear familiar melodies from the King of Pop in this prelude and fugue!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2hUfIRt4o4

 

With his YouTube channel, Giovanni Dettori teaches harmony and counterpoint, sometimes with ingenious arrangements of well-known pop tunes. Here’s another example, based on a more recent latin pop hit:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRkjEgl4KBg

 

Watch more of Dettori’s great videos and subscribe to his YouTube channel, artofcounterpoint.