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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 ...
In music, form refers to the structure of a musical composition or performance.In his book, Worlds of Music, Jeff Todd Titon suggests that a number of organizational elements may determine the formal structure of a piece of music, such as "the arrangement of musical units of rhythm, melody, and/or harmony that show repetition or variation, the arrangement of the instruments (as in the order of ...
Form Voice Key Tempo Time Source Translation Notes Die Vorstellung des Chaos: C minor: Largo: The Representation of Chaos: Day 1 1: Im Anfange schuf Gott Himmel und Erde: Recitative: Bass: C minor: Gen 1:1–2: In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth: Und der Geist Gottes schwebte: Chorus: Gen 1:2–3: And the Spirit of God moved [n 1 ...
The Fugue in D major, BWV 532a, was composed around 1708. [4] It is an earlier version of fugue of BWV 532. Not much is known about this fugue, other than that it was composed around 2 years before the Prelude and Fugue in D Major, and was written and premiered in Weimar.
The Musical Offering (German: Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer), BWV 1079, is a collection of keyboard canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great (King Frederick II of Prussia), to whom they are dedicated.
The Art of Fugue; The Well-Tempered Clavier; Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. B. Fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach (1 C, 28 P)
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)
A prelude and fugue is a musical form generally consisting of two movements in the same key for solo keyboard. In classical music , the combination of prelude and fugue is one with a long history. Many composers have written works of this kind.