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Three-voice fugue

Three-voice fugue
  1. What is a three voice fugue?
  2. What are the three parts of a fugue?
  3. How many voices are in Bach's fugues?

What is a three voice fugue?

The Exposition

A second voice follows with the answer (we will discuss later what makes an answer different to the subject). ... In a 3 voice fugue we would have subject, answer, subject. In a 4 voice fugue we would have subject, answer, subject, answer.

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.

How many voices are in Bach's fugues?

Example and analysis

Bach's Fugue No. 2 in C minor, BWV 847, from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 illustrates the application of most of the characteristics described above. The fugue is for keyboard and in three voices, with regular countersubjects.

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