Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor is an organ piece by Johann Sebastian Bach. Presumably composed early in Bach's career, it is one of his most important and well-known works, and an important influenc
One of the manuscript copies of BWV 582, first page
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In classical music, a fugue is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject that is introduced at the beginning in imitation, which recurs frequently th
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
…21 repetitions of the Passacaglia ground and 12 statements of the fugue subjects) are inversions. The passacaglia is followed, without break, by a double fugue. The first half of the passacaglia ostinato is used as the first subject; a transformed version of the second half is used as the second subject. Both…
The six-part fugue in the "Ricercar a 6" from The Musical Offering, in the hand of Johann Sebastian Bach
The interval of a fifth inverts to a fourth (dissonant) and therefore cannot be employed in invertible counterpoint, without preparation and resolution.
Visual analysis of J.S. Bach's Fugue No. 2 in C minor, BWV 847, from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (bars 7–12)