Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 20, 2025
a double fugue, where it is not difficult to see in the first theme a fragment of the "baby" motive. The son is clearly the hero, mainly in sportive humor, although he is not free from parental interference. The maze and rigor of the fugue do not prevent a frequent appearance of all the other themes, and even of the full melodies, of which the fugal motives are built.
Augmentation and diminution of theme abound, together with the full fugal manner. In all the variety of quick and slower melodies a single phrase of five notes, the opening of the symphony, pervades. In all kinds of humor it sings, martial, solemn, soothing, meditative, or sprightly.
A fugal revel of the comic phrase with the quick strum as counter-theme ends in a new carnival, here a dashing march, there a mad chase of strident harmonies. Now sings the full romance and passion of the melody through the whole gamut from pathos to rapture. It ends with poignant stress of the essence of the song, with sheerest grating of straining harmonies.
It is a favourite device of Conrad's which might be described as, structurally progressing from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous. His novel, Chance, is a specific instance of his intricate and elliptical method. Several personages of the story relate in almost fugal manner, the heroine appearing to us in flashes as if reflected by some revolving mirror.
The themes were of the formal mathematical type developed during the fugal period a type that "worked" easily, and in a way effectively, in the fugue itself, but was unnecessary and, indeed, tiresome when contrapuntal working was not the aim and object. The endless variants on this kind of thing, for example
At length the sadness is overcome and there is a new animation as separate voices enter in fugal manner in the line of the march. Now the festive tune holds sway in lower pace in the basses; but then rings on high in answer the wistful melody again and again, in doubled and twice redoubled pace.
"Oh, only a fugal movement just a fugue of Kirnberger's." "I wish you would not give us so much of this fugal style. No doubt it is all very fine from a scholastic point of view, but to most it seems merely confused. So far from assisting me and the choir to go out with dignity, it really fetters our movements.
it bears a burden of elemental, all-contenting emotion. In the main, the whole movement is one lyric flight. But there come the moods of musing and rhapsodic rapture. In a brief fugal vein is a mystic harking back to the earlier prelude. In these lesser phrases are the foil or counter-figures for the bursts of the melody.
fugal text seems for a moment to weave itself into the first tune. Instead, comes into the midst of sermon a hymnal chant, blown gently by the brass, while other stray voices run lightly on the thread of fugue. There is, indeed, a playful suggestion of the dance somehow in the air.
The idea having once been given, the composing of airs productive of fugal harmony would naturally grow up, as in some way it did grow up, out of this alternate choir-singing. And from the fugue to concerted music of two, three, four, and more parts, the transition was easy.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking