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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 ...
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)
Prelude (Toccata) and Fugue in E major, BWV 566; Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543; Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544; Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major, BWV 866; Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 531; Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 546; Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 871; Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532; Prelude and Fugue ...
Prelude and fugue – Pairing of two compositions, a prelude and a fugue. Unmeasured prelude – Free-form, non-metric instrumental composition, often for keyboard. Quodlibet – Composition combining several different melodies, often popular tunes, in counterpoint.
Examples: The Art of Fugue; ... Fantasia and Fugue; Music written in all major or minor keys; ... Fugue in G minor, BWV 1000; G. Geographical Fugue;
The fugues of J.S.Bach contain a variety of examples of imitation. The fugue in B♭ minor BWV 867, from Book 1 of the Well-tempered Clavier opens with a subject that is imitated at the interval of a fifth higher and at a distance of four beats: Bach Fugue XXII in B flat minor BWV 867, opening
Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, two complete sets of 24 Preludes and Fugues written for keyboard in 1722 and 1742, and often known as "the 48", is generally considered the greatest example of music traversing all 24 keys. Many later composers clearly modelled their sets on Bach's, including the order of the keys.
The fugue is constructed from prelude-like arpeggios and contains no vertical dissonances whatsoever, instead creating harmonic motion by sporadically touching on unrelated keys such as B ♭ major, D ♭ major, and C major. [11] The three-voice fugue begins with a statement of the main theme, or subject, in the soprano voice.