The Fugue, explained in under 5 minutes

Exploring an older more complex form of Classical Music...I personally have always found fugues rather hard! This is my attempt to make the subject a little easier...
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[@bengeurden1272]

Fugue explained within 10 seconds: one theme in countless different forms with some modulations and quoted all the time.

[@ps4402]

I once heard the difference between a fugue and a canon is in a fugue, once you're out, you can never get back in. With a canon, once you're in, you can never get out.

[@Twaxx336]

I love your videos! Such an underrated channel, keep it up man

[@Koekjes32434234]

Bach also wrote a fugue for 7 voices, see the credo from the mass in b minor. Or in the romantic period, 16 voices, see Raimondi's 4 Fugues at once.

[@francohernandezparischewsk4379]

Love your videos!

[@brazil123]

great video! underrated content

[@gavinfarkas283]

I'll take playing a fugue over something like the Satie Gymnopidies. To play those right is such a challenge. Once you play a few fugues and get them down it becomes so easy because your listening changes. At this point I can improvise a decent fugue, but the tranquility and that off feeling of the Gymnopidies is not something that comes easy to me, that takes a different focus. Regardless great explanation!

[@chessematics]

The first ever piece i ever attempted to write was a fugue. You can guess i invited doom to have a dinner with me.

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

As in Dr Doom??

[@chessematics]

@@enjoyclassicalmusic6006 no, just general hazard

[@debug8377]

no wonder hector berlioz used a fugue in his symphonie fantastique 5th movement (ronde du sabbat) as a depiction of hell

[@nadirwerner3026]

I just saw this video and thought about asking a few things, if anyone can answer some it will be appreciated.
1- Is there any difference between the fugue in 2 voices in e minor (book 1) to a normal 2 part invention?
2- Are the "gigues" from the partitas, fugues? Why do they have a different name?
3- The prelude 19 (book 1) seems like a good fugue subject and the theme is repeated a lot in the prelude, yet is not a fugue. does this have a special name? Other example of this very imitative style of prelude is the no 2 from second book, yet this doesnt sound like a good fugue subject.
Anyways do you know a book to learn more about the subject? badum tss

[@thereyougoagain1280]

Fantastic video! Just a note, what you described as the answer or countersubject in the F minor fugue is actually just part of the subject. I can understand the confusion, because this particular subject happens to have two halves that are very call-and-response in nature, but it’s still just the subject.
Answers and countersubjects are actually two very different things. An answer is simply the entry of the subject in the second voice. This is almost always in dominant, so for the rest of the fugue whenever the subject enters in the tonic we call it the subject and whenever it enters in the dominant we may call it the answer, because the transition to the dominant can mean that the subject will undergo slight changes, as it does in this fugue, which is called a tonal answer. An answer that remains entirely faithful to the original subject is called a real answer.
A countersubject is any theme that consistently plays simultaneously with the subject throughout the fugue. This fugue does actually happen to have a countersubject (some do, some don’t), there’s a melodic figure that, from the entry of the second voice on, consistently plays in one voice along with the subject every time it’s heard in another.

[@katrinat.3032]

Great video thanks ! Please explain Beethoven’s fugues or fuguettos? Sorry I’m not a music major. Does LVB use fugue in his symphonies? Or mini fugues?

[@simoneliloni6117]

Yes, he did. Check the second movement of Symphony no.7, or the double fugue in the fourth movement of the Ninth Symphony.

[@lolsup9817]

He uses fugato and fugue in many of his works

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

There are also a few fugues or fughettas in the Eroica, in the slow movement as well as one of the variations in the finale. I will be looking at the double fugue in the choral of the ninth in my next video so stay tuned!

[@katrinat.3032]

@@simoneliloni6117 thanks!

[@katrinat.3032]

@@enjoyclassicalmusic6006 Wonderful! Thanks

[@MrPSaun]

Has a fugal ever been written for a bugle?

[@Mackattack1080]

Sequences are not rare in fugues

[@VasaMusic438]

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