The epic Baroque Fugue on a Theme by Lady Gaga

31 August 2018, 10:45 | Updated: 31 August 2018, 10:46

A truly monstrous piece of counterpoint.

A bit of a Prelude

It's worth starting this off with a bit of a doff of our music geek cap to the pop superstar. The music video to Lady Gaga's 2009 hit 'Bad Romance' begins with Johann Sebastian Bach's Fugue in B minor from the Well-tempered Clavier Book I:

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And, err... Fugue

So Gaga is clearly someone who likes a bit of Baroque point-on-point action. It's therefore quite appropriate that a YouTube notesmith has taken the theme to 'Bad Romance' and turned it into a brilliant Bach-inspired fugue.

And the pop superstar was lovely enough to get in touch with us and tell us how much she liked this contrapuntal rendering of her melody.

@ClassicFM this is sensational

— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) July 3, 2014

So that's nice. 

Let's close with a brilliant 'orchestration' of this fugue, cunningly assembled by another YouTuber.