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Fugue

In classical music, a fugue (/fjuːɡ/, from Latin fuga, meaning 'flight' or 'escape') is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches), which recurs frequently throughout the course of the composition. It is…

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related to Sources · 81
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related to Outside of classical music · 27
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related to External links · 20
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related to Further reading · 14
Fugue → Bach Fugues, California Press, Free Press/Collier-Macmillan, History, Horsley, Imogene, ISBN, Joseph, Kerman, Keyboard, New York/London, Practice, The Art, University
related to Baroque era · 13
Fugue → Arcangelo Corelli, Baroque, Dieterich Buxtehude, Domenico Scarlatti, Fugues, George Frideric Handel's, Girolamo Frescobaldi, It, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Johann Jakob Froberger, Keyboard, The, The French
related to Development · 13
Fugue → Bach, Buxtehude, Buxtehude's Praeludium, BuxWV, Chaconne, Further, In, It, Middle, One, Pachelbel, The, These
related to Romantic era · 13
Fugue → Baroque, By, Felix Mendelssohn, George Frideric Handel's Harpsichord, Handel, HWV, It, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms' Variations, Op, Romantic, Suite No, Theme
related to Counter-fugue · 12
Fugue → Bach's The Art, Baroque, Capellmeister, Contrapunctus, Contrapunctus VII, Der, During, Examples, German, German-language, Johann Mattheson, Latin
related to Perceptions and aesthetics · 12
Fugue → Bach, Bach's, Beethoven, He, In, In Ratz's, Nicola Vicentino, Peter Kivy, Renaissance, The, This, Writing
related to Double (triple, quadruple) fugue · 11
Fugue → Anne, Bach's, Bach's Passacaglia, Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book, BWV, Fugue No, Kyrie Eleison, Mozart's Requiem, Similarly, St, There

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Fugueis acomposition with maximum self-sufficiency of content0.90text
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