Exempel på fugue

• Another peculiar aspect of the notation of partimento fugues resides in the numerous clef changes, which can even be found after the exposition.

• Composition students studied rigorous forms of counterpoint, fugue, and stylistic composition for various instrumental and vocal forms.

• These modifications are all classic variations used in canons and fugues to vary thematic material.

• The first episode begins with a motif derived from the fugue's incipit, and there is a stretto in the middle entries.

• Incidentally, it is worth noting how fastidiously careful are the phrase markings in the fugue subject.

• The dramatic and primarily rhythmic introduction ends on a half-close and is followed by a strict fugue.

• I propose that the value of partimento fugues as a pedagogical tool hinges on two points.

• The least interesting playing is in the fugues, which contain the least interesting music.

• As for the preludes and fugues themselves, the prelude could have been anything.

• As with the other works considered above, an underlying formal scheme (a prelude followed by a fugue) is used to structure the musical events.

• Nevertheless, until late in the fugue the first and last notes of the subject are most often expressed as chords or dyads.

• The effect of the fugues' many thick passages is like being at a crowded party where everyone is talking loudly at once.

• The fugue is determined by its style rather than by its function: it is a texture with a highly disciplined format.

• Most of the fugue is in three parts only, with rests to give emphasis to a new entry of the subject.

• This is by far the fugue's longest passage in the full five-part texture.