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The six-part fugue in the "Ricercar a 6" from The Musical Offering, in the hand of Johann Sebastian BachIn classical music, a fugue (/ f juː ɡ /, from Latin fuga, meaning "flight" or "escape" [1]) is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches ...
The text, however, was written on the subject "So you want to write a fugue?" Both the text and the music are parodies of the rules and compositional techniques of the genre, as well as the relationship between intellectual methods and artistic intuition in the creative process (e.g., "Just forget the rules, and write one").
BWV 577 – Fugue in G major "à la Gigue" (spurious) BWV 578 – Fugue in G minor "Little" BWV 579 – Fugue on a theme by Arcangelo Corelli (from Op. 3, No. 4); in B Minor; BWV 580 – Fugue in D major (spurious) BWV 581 – Fugue in G major (not by Bach, composed by Gottfried August Homilius) BWV 581a – Fugue in G major (spurious)
Then begins a double fugue, two subjects, played one against the other. The second subject in the first violin, and the first subject, syncopated, in the viola. Then the second violin and cello take up the same thing. First fugue, first variation. The first variation, following the rules of fugue, opens in the subdominant key of E ...
Three Fugues on One Subject, No. 2 (1952) String Quartet in F minor, Op. 1 (1953–55) So You Want to Write a Fugue?, for 4 solo voices & piano or string quartet (1957–58) Lieberson Madrigal, for 4 solo voices (1964) [1] From Chilkoot's Icy Glacier, for 4 solo voices (1967)
Here the composer develops the subject by writing variations either melodically or harmonically. This usually involves the alternation of episodes with statements of the theme, similar to the development of a fugue. In minor- and major-mode inventions, the theme is typically restated in the relative major and the dominant, respectively.
A fugue subject of above-average length andante At a walking pace (i.e. at a moderate tempo) andantino Slightly faster than andante (but earlier it is sometimes used to mean slightly slower than andante) ängstlich (Ger.) Anxiously anima Soul; con anima: with feeling animandosi Progressively more animated animato Animated, lively antiphon
A fugue usually has two main sections: the exposition and the body. In the exposition, each voice plays its own adaptation of the theme, in either a subject or an answer; they also provide countersubjects (counterpoints) to the following voices as they enter. [7] The exposition usually ends on either a I or V chord, and is then followed by the ...