Fugue

unable to recall how she arrived here. Earlier the same day Sybil had returned to her conscious self and awoken in a pond of water. This kind of behavior corresponds to a kind of Dissociative Disorder called Dissociative Fugue. Often people who experience Dissociative Fugue will suddenly leave work or home and are unable to recall how they got there. It is common…

A Comparison and Contrast of Bach’s Fingering System and Modern Fingering System Comparing the work of J.S. Bach’s Prelude and Fugue During the 20th centuries, modern piano has developed and request pianists have to do changes for playing techniques to pursuit the great articulation of the piano playing. It affects all aspects of performance, in order to produce the perfect color of the tone, good memorization, excellent technique skills, and also the pianist could get more security for the…

native Hawaiian, wakes up in Nebraska. He has no recollection of who he is, how he got there, or where he came from. With the information given from the case study, I have deducted which mental disorder Karl has. He has dissociative fugue, formerly called psychogenic fugue, is a psychological disorder in which a person temporarily loses their sense of personal identity, wandering or traveling far from home or work. Other than the mental complications they create, there are no physical signs,…

soprano. But when the bass and alto are supporting the melody, the theme is easily distinguishable. Using descriptors to help guide my ears, I was able to selectively hear melodies performed in higher ranges, allowing me to fully hear the execution of fugue vices in producing an appreciable work of…

her household, which is the likely cause of dissociative fugue. Her thoughts may cause her to believe that she is the reason behind why the traumatic events occurred. Her cousin, Diego, also exhibits much of the same behavior as Dora. It’s possible that her thoughts of what is acceptable were also induced by him, considering they were raised in the same household. Until Dora’s mindset changes she will continue to suffer from dissociative fugue. In terms of schizophrenia, professional help would…

I have a love-hate relationship with Fugue by Laura Hendrix Ezell. My attention was captured right from the first page with Paulette’s games, and how literal the “terrible, relentless as dogs” her dreams was. Fugue was so well written but the story left me with so many unresolved questions in my head that I could not let it go. Ezell did a wonderful job with creating suspensions for the story after painted an exposition filled with fear: two times the protagonist woke up with no memory of what…

If you’ve ever heard the Mozart requiem, chances are, you’ve heard the Süssmayr completion. What many people don’t know is that there are also other completions, the most famous ones being the versions by Franz Beyer, Robert Levin, Richard Maunder, Duncan Druce, and HC Robbins Landon. Today we are going to take a closer look at one section, the Lacrimosa. As many people already know, Mozart only wrote eight bars of the Lacrimosa before his death on December 5, 1791. When Joseph Eybler tried his…

While both the Middle Ages and the Renaissance were fairly mild, the Baroque era got a little more complex. Baroque actually came from the Portuguese word barocco, meaning irregularly shaped pearl and referring to excessive ornamentation. This era was known for its scientific revolution; Sir Isaac Newton created his laws of gravity, Johaness Kepler discovered that the planets move around the son, William Harvey discovered the circulation, and Santorio Santorii created the thermometer. The…

The poem “Death Fugue” focuses largely on individual suffering rather than the suffering of Jews as a whole. “Death Fugue” uses the color black as a metaphor for individual suffering when it states, “black milk of daybreak we drink you at night” (21). By portraying milk, something seen as pure, as black, it is creating…

In Bach's D major and a minor fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, some of the characteristic that Bach often uses including descending 5th sequences in order to go from on tonal area to another tonal area. As you can see in the D major fugue, at the episode 2 which is from measure nine to measure 10, the sequences allows the music goes from b minor back to G major. The same technique is also used in the a minor fugue from measure 8 where it goes from a minor back to C major at measure 9. Some…