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Burning Down · 03-29-2012, 01:35 PM

^ What a great post! Fugue form is my favourite too, especially Bach - the absolute master of fugue:

Here's one of my faves, Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp Major, WTC Vol. I

Oh, I should also add that fugues can have up to 5 different voices - Bach's Fugue in Bb minor from WTC 1, and the one I posted above (C# major) are the only two from that collection to have 5 voices. All the other fugues have only 3 or 4 voices. A three voice fugue has Upper, Middle, and Lower voices, and a four voice fugue has Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass voices. There is also one fugue with only 2 voices - No. 10 in Em from WTC 1. That one is just played like a canon.

Also, fugue expositions can have a false entry of the subject - that is, the first part of the subject appears but not the rest. It's almost like stretto, but in the exposition and usually only in one voice.

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Burning Down The Music Guru. Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Beyond the Wall Posts: 4,858	^ What a great post! Fugue form is my favourite too, especially Bach - the absolute master of fugue: Here's one of my faves, Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp Major, WTC Vol. I Oh, I should also add that fugues can have up to 5 different voices - Bach's Fugue in Bb minor from WTC 1, and the one I posted above (C# major) are the only two from that collection to have 5 voices. All the other fugues have only 3 or 4 voices. A three voice fugue has Upper, Middle, and Lower voices, and a four voice fugue has Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass voices. There is also one fugue with only 2 voices - No. 10 in Em from WTC 1. That one is just played like a canon. Also, fugue expositions can have a false entry of the subject - that is, the first part of the subject appears but not the rest. It's almost like stretto, but in the exposition and usually only in one voice.