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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)
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 (doubtful) [11] BWV 578 – Fugue in G minor ("Little") BWV 579 – Fugue in B minor (on a theme by Corelli, from Op. 3, No. 4) BWV 580 – Fugue in D major (doubtful) [12] BWV 581 – Fugue in G major (not by Bach, composed by Gottfried August Homilius) BWV 582 – Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
The subject of the fugue is composed of three separate motifs, all of which can be found in canzonas and ricercars. The 19th-century Bach scholar Philipp Spitta praised the fugue, particularly its modulations. Williams has suggested that "perhaps the imaginative penultimate bar was inspired by J. S. Bach". [8] [3] Prelude and Fugue in A minor ...
BWV 853 – Prelude and Fugue in E-flat minor (The fugue of this work is in D-sharp minor, the enharmonic key of E-flat minor) BWV 854 – Prelude and Fugue in E major; BWV 855 – Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 855a – Prelude in E minor (early version of the prelude of BWV 855), and Fughetta [15] BWV 856 – Prelude and Fugue in F major
The Prelude and Fughetta were published in Series V, Volume 6.1 of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, based on various sources for the Prelude, and on the Konwitschny source (of which a film copy had been preserved) for the Fughetta. [3] BWV 855a is an early version of BWV 855, No. 10 in the 1722 first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier. [4]
The Grosse Fuge (German: Große Fuge, also known in English as the Great Fugue or Grand Fugue), Op. 133, is a single-movement composition for string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven. An immense double fugue , it was universally condemned by contemporary music critics.
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