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- What are the rules of a fugue?
- How do you practice fugues?
- What makes a good fugue?
- Are fugues hard to play?
What are the rules of a fugue?
Most fugues open with a short main theme, the subject, which then sounds successively in each voice (after the first voice is finished stating the subject, a second voice repeats the subject at a different pitch, and other voices repeat in the same way); when each voice has completed the subject, the exposition is ...
How do you practice fugues?
How To Learn Any Fugue in 5 Easy Steps
- Play through the entire fugue at the first sitting. That's right. ...
- Spend more time learning fingerings, articulations, division of the hands, and getting fluent. ...
- Learn each voice individually. ...
- Learn each combination of voices. ...
- Put the entire fugue together again.
What makes a good fugue?
Any exercise emphasizing melodic development, counterpoint exercises, or themes and variations will help. A big part of writing a fugue subject is keeping in mind how other melodies can interact with it while you're constructing it. Usually simple is better. Listen to Bach's Little Fugue in G minor.
Are fugues hard to play?
Fugues are difficult to play because you have to keep track of a lot of things at once. Very generally speaking, music usually has a melody and some chords with a bass line underneath.
