How to play a fugue

1. How do I learn to play a fugue?
2. How does a fugue work?
3. Are fugues hard to play?
4. What is the easiest fugue?

How do I learn to play a fugue?

How To Learn Any Fugue in 5 Easy Steps

1. Play through the entire fugue at the first sitting. That's right. ...
2. Spend more time learning fingerings, articulations, division of the hands, and getting fluent. ...
3. Learn each voice individually. ...
4. Learn each combination of voices. ...
5. Put the entire fugue together again.

How does a fugue work?

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 entered, the exposition is complete.

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.

What is the easiest fugue?

The easiest fugue is the E minor from Book 1 because it has only two voices, and there's no need to take it at a crazy tempo--it actually sounds pretty nice at moderato. Also from Book 1, the F Major Fugue is not too hard. Along that line, you can try the D Major Fugue and the B-flat Major Fugue.