Three voices made a fugue of friendly farewells to Nello, as he retreated with a bow to Romola and a beck to Tito.
But, after having resisted all persuasions, he at last took pity on my musical education, which, as he soon discovered from a fugue which I had brought with me, was exceedingly faulty.
When I brought him the fugue finished, he handed me his own treatment of the same theme for comparison.
I had already had to write the above-mentioned fugue for ordinary voices; my feeling for the melodious and vocal had in this way been awakened.
This common task of fugue writing established between me and my good-natured teacher the tenderest of ties, for, from that moment, we both enjoyed the lessons.
I recall with respectful pleasure the peculiarly royal favour with which during my visit to Potsdam your Majesty was pleased to play to me a fugue theme, and to require me immediately to work it out in your presence.
The fugues are usually in three portions, as in Bach's great E flatfugue (Peters, 242).
A form of opera overture consisting of a slow introduction, followed by a fugue or fugato, and concluding with a slow movement.
In fugue he was especially careful about the part writing--no voice must merely fill in the harmony, or break off before it had finished what it had to say.
The fugue is in two portions, divided by nine bars of florid passages.
The fugue of the sonata in G minor is also arranged for organ in D minor.
The words "Credo in unum deum" are a fugue on the ancient Plainsong, which is in semibreves, with a perpetually moving bass on the organ in crotchets.
The fugue is arranged from the earlier violin solo fugue in G minor (228).
This fugue was however interrupted by the blindness of the author, and could not be finished.
Mendelssohn of all composers can least bear heroic treatment from the ultra vigorous among modern pianists, and the Fugue especially suffered.
His rendering of a Prelude and Fugue in E minor of Mendelssohn was utterly at variance with the traditional methods of interpreting the music of this composer, and in Schumann's Fantasia in C, op.
The Variations and Fugue and Humoresques à l'antique enable one to understand how Paderewski can play Scarlatti, Couperin, and Rameau with such intimate sympathy.
The Daily News thought that the leonine attributes with which Paderewski was accredited in "his own advertisements" were "fully exemplified in the Prelude and Fugue of Mendelssohn which opened the programme.
The concert-giver played as an additional piece his own arrangement for the pianoforte of the fuguefrom Beethoven's String Quartet, Op.
An Organ Fugue in A flat minor was published as a supplement to No.
Amongst the pieces chosen by him for performance on this occasion were Bach's great Organ Prelude and Fugue in A minor.
I would call this a power of refashioning, in the best spirit of the present day, the contrapuntal forms of canon and fugue and of their degenerate and inferior representatives.
Peters of Leipzig; and a Prelude and Fugue for Organ, published in 1881 as a supplement to the Musikalisches Wochenblatt without opus number.
In the earlier part of the same year Louis Brassin played the Handel Variations and Fugue in Munich with very great success.
The rudimentary instrumentation of the time made such speed possible, yet who is there to-day who could write all thosefugue choruses with such speed?
The fugue manner, which seems laborious to us, was current at the time and they were practised in it.
Such an improvisation may be better than a fugue by a great master, on the principle that nothing in art is good unless it is in its proper place.
We learn the elements of the fugue from Sebastian Bach's Wohltemperirte Klavier, the piano from the works of Schumann and Liszt, and harmony and instrumentation from Richard Wagner.
There is a processional in which the fugueand melody alternate in the most felicitous manner.
I had already completed the study of harmony, counterpoint and fugueunder Maleden's direction.
The fine depth of tone in the exordium of Struensée and the fugue development in the main theme are also not to be despised.
On examining it, Sir George saw that it would never do with his audience to end with the fugue on "God save the King," and consulted with Ferdinand Ries as to what kind of close to make.
The sketches for the conclusion of the Quintet fugue (Nottebohm, "Zweite Beethoveniana," p.
Even the unhappy idea of converting the melody of "God save the King" into a subject of a fugue in quick movement, emanates from Maelzel.
Ries added to the score a short passage of modulation, which led from the fugue into the plain, simple tune.
This troubled dream is circumstantially reported in Section the Third, entitled 'Dream-Fugue on the theme of Sudden Death.
One of the sections of this second article was entitled The Vision of Sudden Death, and the other Dream- Fugue on the above theme of Sudden Death.
I think it great, especially the big fugue at the end.
Die Fugue ist gut" (You have been very industrious.
The instrumentalists were trained in the art of copying effects of fugue or madrigal by lutes and viols in concerted pieces.
This Fuguehad previously formed the fourth movement of the Quartett in B (No.
Anton Halm, when he arranged the grand Fugue for the pianoforte.
Czerny had arranged the Fugueabove alluded to, before Halm; but his production met with no more approval than Hummel's movement from Fidelio.
As we were one day talking of subjects for Fugues at the conclusion of a lesson, I sitting at the piano and he next to me, I began to play the subject of the first Fugue of Graun's "Death of Jesus.
He then went to a table in an adjoining room and wrote two lines of music--a little Fugue for the pianoforte--and presented it to me in a most amiable manner.
The arrangement is by Nicolai, and is infugue treatment, opening with the theme for all parts.
The fugue is then taken by the orchestra and superbly worked up.
It is pleasant to recall that when I wanted to work at counterpoint, before I entered the class in fugue and composition--Ambroise Thomas was the professor--M.
He came from Ambroise Thomas to offer me the place of professor of counterpoint, fugue and composition at the Conservatoire to replace Francois Bazin who had died some months before.
In this group of choruses the art of fugue and counterpoint is splendidly illustrated, but never to the sacrifice of brilliant effect, which is also heightened by the trumpets in the accompaniments.
Hence we find more decided contrapuntal effects, the canon and fugue forms, and even the plain, serious style of the early devotional music of the Church in the days of Gregory and Palestrina.
There is a pause of the voices for two bars, then they move on in a strong fugue ("Though Thousands languish and fall").
It was only for an instant; he pulled himself together, and played the fugue to its logical conclusion.
Oh, only a fugal movement--just a fugue of Kirnberger's.
Mr Sharnall determined to play something of quality as a tribute to the unknown tenor, and gave as good a rendering of the Saint Anne's fugue as the state of the organ would permit.
He now attracted the attention of the Countess Perticari, who admired his voice, and she sent him to the Lyceum to learn fugue and counterpoint at the feet of a very strict Gamaliel, Padre Mattei.
The cordial hospitality and admiration of Frederick was gratefully acknowledged by Bach, who dedicated to him a three-part fugue on a theme composed by the king, known under the name of "A Musical Offering.
With the simple airs then in use, a partially harmonious fugue might not improbably thus result: and a very partially harmonious fugue satisfied the ears of that age, as we know from still preserved examples.
And from the fugue to concerted music of two, three, four, and more parts, the transition was easy.
They grew weary in those days of the severity of the fugue form; and the composers of the time naturally endeavored to supply them with what they desired, something easily, rhythmically pleasing.
The fugue is the most complex and highly organized polyphonic form we have, and it is necessary that the reader should know something of its construction.
A fugue has been defined as "a musical composition developed, according to certain rules of imitation, from a short theme or phrase called the subject.
The subject of a Bach piano fugue not only suggests the answer and the logical development, but it fixes the character of the musical mood of the composition.
It is in this well ordered discussion of musical ideas which have been laid down as primary propositions, that we find the immense advance of the fugue as an intellectual form over the polyphonic works of Lasso or Palestrina.
The subject, then, is a definite theme, of from four to eight measures, from which the fugue is developed.
This subject is from time to time reproduced by each of the two, three, four, or more parts or voices for which the fugue is written.
The experienced master rather doubted if the charming apparition before him could produce such an intricate work as a fugue without receiving aid, so he gave her a new theme and requested her to write another fugue upon it.
Lucina Jewell, a New England Conservatory graduate, is the author of an introduction and fugue for organ, besides some effective songs and other works.
Dante fugue if it has been printed) please let me have through Kahnt.
The latter is one of those I have worked out most fully, and contains two fugue movements and a couple of passages which were written with tears of blood.
If there is still time and space you might perhaps contribute your arrangement of the Fugue from the "Dante Symphony" (with the ending which I composed to it for you).
Frederick thereupon wrote out the subject, and Bach developed this in the most learned and interesting manner, to the great astonishment of the king, who, on his side, asked to hear a fugue in six parts.
The musicians accompanied the king and Bach from one room to another; and after the latter had tried all the pianos, he begged the king to give him a fugue subject, that he could at once extemporise upon.
As the dawn hastens a subdued fugue of chirps and whistles, soft, continuous and quite distinct from the cheerful individual notes and calls with which the glare is greeted, completes a circle of sounds.
Her long lashes drooped as she looked down at the bouquet between her fingers, and listening to the Fugue which memory played on the petals, she sighed involuntarily.
The fugue is really "paper" music, it is possible to write more than could possibly be imagined, this also applies in some degree to pieces of a highly contrapuntal nature.
The music of the four-part fugue entered into him more deeply, and he began to hum its little phrases.
