Fugue Terms & Concepts

Terms & Concepts

1. Historical Background, p. 209-210
• Medieval
  
• fuga, (Lat., 'to flee')
  
• rondellus {WP} and caccia {BA}
  
• Renaissance
• Canonic procedure
• Missa ad fugam {WP}
  
• Choral motets {WP} -> keyboard ricercare {WP}
  
• Chansons -> canzonas {WP}
  
• fuga (meaning strict imitation and evoking hexachordal theory) vs. imitatione (Lat., 'imitation')
  
2. The Fugues of J.S. Bach, p. pp. 210-211
• J.S. BACH, Well-Tempered Clavier (WTC) {WP}
• Book I (1722)
• Book II (c1742)
• Monothematic fugue, p. 210
• Compositional procedure
• Gauldin writes that fugue is a "compositional procedure rather than an actual formal model." (p. 210)
3. Simple fugue
   
• Exposition (EXPO), pp. 211-217
• Number of voices
• Order of entries; e.g., SAS; 213
  
• Subject (S)
  
• Link
  
• Answer (A)
• Tonal Answer
• Real Answer
• Countersubject (CS)
• Bridge (after Benjamin 2003)
  Gauldin calls this the episode following the answer, p. 214
  
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• Episodes, pp. 219-222
  
• Reentries of the subject, p. 218-219
• Middle entry
• Inverted entry
• Extra entry, pp. 215-217
• Final entry
  
• False entry
• Contrapuntal devices, pp. 222-223
  
• Stretto
• Augmentation/diminution of the subject
• Invertible counterpoint
• Double counterpoint
• Triple counterpoint
• Codetta
• Additional topics:
• Counter-Exposition, p. 217
• Rhythmic modification of themes
  
• Pedal point
• The Overall Structure of a Fugue, pp. 223-226
• fuge d'ecole (Fr., 'academic fugue'), p. 223
4. Model Analyses
• Simple Fugue
• WTC I, Fugue No. 2 in C minor, a 3, pp. 223-225
• WTC I, Fugue No. 8 in D# minor, a 3, pp. 225-226
• WTC II, Fugue No. 9 in E major, a 4, pp. 262-264
• Multiple Fugue {Earsense}
• Double fugue, pp. 266-271
• WTC I, Fugue No. 13 in F# major
  
• Art of the Fugue
• Contrapunctus IX, a 4, pp. 270-271
• Contrapunctus X, a 4, pp. 269-270
• Triple fugue
• WTC II, Fugue No. 14 in F# minor, a 3, pp. 272-274
• WTC I, Fugue No. 4 in C# minor, a 5
5. Other Topics
   
• Development in fugue
• Use of canon
• Five- and Six-Voice Fugues, pp. 274-275
• WTC I, Fugue No. 4 in C# minor, a 5
• WTC I, Fugue No. 22 in Bb minor, a 5
• Musical Offering, Ricercar, a 6
6. Other Fugues by J.S. Bach
   
• List of fugal works by J.S. Bach {WP}
  
• Musical Offering {WP}
• Ricercar, a 3
  
• Ricercar, a 6
  
• Art of the Fugue {Teoria; WP}
• Organ fugues, pp. 255-256
• Fugue in G minor ('Great'), BWV 542, p. 267 {WP}
  
• Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537, p. 271 {WP}
  
• Fugue in E minor ('Wedge'), BWV 548 {WP}
• Fugue in G minor ('Little'), BWV 578 {WP}
• Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 {WP}
  
• Fugue in choral movements, pp. 284-285
• Permutation fugue, p. 285
  
• Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 {WP}, p. 285
  
• Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Kyrie {WP}
  

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