Friday, June 8, 2018

Fugue time!

I've been having a fabulous time working on the fugues from the Diabelli variations by Beethoven. The fughetta is sweet and lovely. The big fugue is amazing!! It is a double fugue, meaning that there are two subjects at the same time. And just to keep things interesting, one subject is mostly repeated notes, while another subject is half steps. Seems like it would be impossible to make a fugue on that sound like anything but utter cacaphony.... and yet it's incredibly beautiful, vibrant, and full of lively partnerships between the two subjects.

And then it all hits a crisis point and a fermata and....

ANOTHER DOUBLE FUGUE! this one resembling the vivacious finale to the "Pastoral" Symphony no. 6 that we all know and love.

In sum: First half of big fugue

Second half of big fugue

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