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- What is an example of a fugue?
- What is the difference between a cannon and a fugue?
- What did Bach Pair with a fugue?
- What are the three parts of a fugue?
What is an example of a fugue?
The definition of a fugue is a musical composition for a specific number of parts or voices, or is a temporary state of amnesia. An example of a fugue is a song written specifically for three voices. An example of a fugue is forgetting the last ten minutes.
What is the difference between a cannon and a fugue?
Canon is an important form and procedure based on counterpoint and, as such, is related to fugue. From the perspective of fugue itself, canon is important as a basic procedure of imitative counterpoint often used as part of a fugue. While canon is not fugue, many fugues contain portions of canonic imitation.
What did Bach Pair with a fugue?
In The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 (published 1751; Die Kunst der Fuge), Bach composed two three-voice mirror fugues; each of these is paired with a second fugue that is the exact mirror inversion, in all parts, of the first.
What are the three parts of a fugue?
A fugue usually has three sections: an exposition, a development, and finally, a recapitulation that contains the return of the subject in the fugue's tonic key, though not all fugues have a recapitulation.
