Well, I had an awful lot to do this weekend, so
I figured why not write a fugue based on Brittany
Spears' "Oops." I actually use that song on the first
day of counterpoint class to demonstrate melody (good
melody - really), and last year Mark P, a grad
student, wrote a nice invention based on the tune.
Then yesterday another student clued me into the
video I've embedded below. Neat idea, not necessarily
the best execution (Glenn Gould did something similar
once - Danny Pi's fugue sounds more Bach-like than
mine (read on), but it's short, and I prefer
Beethoven fugues anyway). So yes, I threw my hat into
the ring and here's my strange, more-Beethoven-like
than Bach-like Oops Fugue
