Fugue

He was a devout christian, he wished that his all music could serve the God and also most of his works are religious music. The biggest achievement of Bach was that he developed the polyphonic music, in his area, he stranded the highest level position. To compare with Bach with Mozart and Beethoven, Mozart is like a happiness of the God, Beethoven is like the God’s powerful, but Bach is language of the God. In personal opinion, Bach’s music is more connotative and complex. Bach had composed 228…

form. Fugue The fugue is one of the highest accomplishments of Baroque music. Bach was a famous composer who wrote countless fugues. Fugues are complex musical forms that combine several different elements to complete a three-, four- or even five-part texture. The subject is the opening musical idea that serves as the basis for the rest of the musical development. Following the subject is another musical idea called the answer. These two elements form the basis for the development of a fugue…

The Baroque Era stretched across a century and a half of European history. It took place between the years of 1600 and 1750. Baroque is derived from the term “barroco,” which means irregular shaped pearl. This term is used to describe this period because it was a time of turbulent changes in politics, science, and the arts. Milestones in intellectual history were reached as Galileo, Copernicus, Descartes, and Spinoza expanded the ideas in physics, astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy. William…

bit less common than localized. With generalized D.A. both life and identity will be affected by memory loss. Someone can not only lose the knowledge of themselves, but also of the people they love that’s around them. Fugue dissociative amnesia is the rarest form of D.A. With fugue a person and complete amnesia and may adopt a completely new identity with no knowledge of who they were before. Dissociative amnesia and medical amnesia differs because with medical amnesia causes memories to return…

organ, allowed for the emergence of virtuosos such as Antonio Vivaldi and Girolamo Frescobaldi. Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier made for scientifically-based tuning. In the Baroque era, new genres emerged, such as the opera, the concerto, and the fugue. The opera, a highly extravagant genre, combines…

A fugue (literally “flight”) is a polyphonic composition in which a single musical theme (or subject) is re-stated in sequential phrases… In the eighteen individual compositions that make up The Art of Fugue, Bach explored the possibilities of imitative counterpoint; for example, the musical subject might be arranged to appear backward or inverted (or both);…

cadenza that is an ornamented cadence. The sinfonia closes with a real fugue in two voices. The figuration is so rich in harmonic implications that the two parts suffice to suggest an orchestral texture. The fugue subject belongs to a type that is composed out of a single dominant chord. Each statement of the subject serves as a dominant preparation for the following passage, rather than serving as a point of repose. The fugue is divided in half by the episode in mm. 24-34; most of the second…

it was too late for them to escape the imminent evil of the Nazi regime. He then was enlisted to serve at a labor camp and miraculously survived; his parents, however, did not. Immediately after the end of the war, Paul wrote his masterpiece, Death Fugue in 1945 and it was published later in 1948. This poem is one of a handful that received…

reason for this argument is Mozart’s juxtaposition and integration of Learned and Galant style in the finale of Symphony No. 41, which is a movement in allegro sonata form, a characteristic typically associated with the Galant style, that also contains fugues, canons, and imitations, which are characteristics of learned style. The fugal finale, giving this piece…

Bach, Godowsky, Balakirev, Zorn, and Liszt. The first piece he played was “Prelude & Fugue, BWV 872” composed by Bach. I was a little unsure about the nature and form of this piece because it was unlike some of the more structured pieces we listen to in class. As I heard it, it seemed to be a kind of theme and variations theme, with small differences in each repetition of the theme. After the prelude, the fugue had its own motives with…