Fugue (music. Bach - Musical Offering, 6 Part Fugue - Munchinger. Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ. Fugue: Anatomy of. Visit the Fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier site, where all of the techniques discussed on this page are illustrated in interactive hypermedia (Adobe Shockwave Player required). Please refer also to Jeffrey Hall's magnificent Art of Fugue site. |Português| I. Definition of a Fugue Polyphonic procedure involving a specified number of voices in which a motive (subject) is exposed, in each voice, in an initial tonic/dominant relationship, then developed by contrapuntal means.
II. "Form" of a Fugue A fugue generally consists of a series of expositions and developments with no fixed number of either. III. Before form, the fugue is metaphorical; its purpose is to reveal connections between seemingly unlike things. IV. A. V. A. The following examples of contrapuntal inversion are designed to be played from the Musica Antiqua Koln (Archiv 431 704-2) recording of the "Art of Fugue" BWV 1080.
Exchange of Registers (contrapuntal inversion) in Canon per Augmentationem in contrario Motu. Fugue. The English term fugue originated in the 16th century and is derived from the French word fugue or the Italian fuga. This in turn comes from Latin, also fuga, which is itself related to both fugere ("to flee") and fugare ("to chase").[1] The adjectival form is fugal.[2] Variants include fughetta (literally, "a small fugue") and fugato (a passage in fugal style within another work that is not a fugue).[3] Musical outline[edit] A fugue begins with the exposition and is written according to certain predefined rules; in later portions the composer has more freedom, though a logical key structure is usually followed.
Further entries of the subject will occur throughout the fugue, repeating the accompanying material at the same time.[13] The various entries may or may not be separated by episodes. What follows is a chart displaying a fairly typical fugal outline, and an explanation of the processes involved in creating this structure. The exposition[edit] Example of a tonal answer in J.S. Listen.