Passacaglia & Fugue No. 4 (String Quintet)
Music of this video is "Passacaglia and Fugue No. 4" and is a tune KATO Yuitiro created in 2010. A passacaglia is old European dance music and have a characteristic that a pattern is repeated on a bass part, but the pattern is moved to a tenor or soprano part in the middle of this passacaglia. A fugue is independent melodies that are played at the same time and are united by a melody that is showed at the opening. The style of this tune is more like Renaissance counterpoint, which is represented by Palestrina, than baroque counterpoint, which is represented by BACH. The performance of this tune is due to computer music that is based on MIDI. The kind of this tune is chamber music, or the string quintet: Composition of musical instruments is 2 violins, 2 violas, and 1 cello.
The image is a thing by MAMPlayer: the horizontal axis shows time; the vertical axis shows the pitch; difference of color shows difference of parts.
Newer: Passacaglia & Fugue No. 5 (Piano)
Older: Passacaglia & Fugue No. 3 (Flute Quintet)