This tour-de-force of the genre was written by Stephen Malinowski, whose music has been featured here earlier. Based on the folk song popularized by Paul Simon (and recorded by Simon and Garfunkel and featured in the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme) the tune is very familiar.
The main tune, when it appears as Itself, is in slow notes, and not the very first ones either; you can identify them because on the graph they appear in bright orange. In this particular version, Stephen's counter-melodies are all derived from the main tune itself, often speeded up or slowed down. This is often seen in some of the more abstract works by Bach, especially those in The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge) or A Musical Offering (Ein Musicalische Opfer).
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