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Updated: June 22, 2025
And the clarinet returns with its mystic madrigal of melody; now the Adagio theme enters and gives it point and meaning. In one more burst it sings in big and little in the same alluring harmony, whence it dies down to soothing close in brilliant gamut as of sinking sun. IV. Allegro vivace. Throwing aside the clinging fragments of fugue in the prelude we rush into a gaiety long sustained.
A safer canon is that the development of a musician should be like that of a fugue or first movement, in which, the subject having been enounced, it is essential that thenceforward everything shall be both new and old at one and the same time new, but not too new old, but not too old. Indeed no musician can be original in respect of any large percentage of his work.
A fugue is used incidentally with a burlesque effect that reminds one of Berlioz' "Amen" parody in the "Damnation of Faust." The Finale exploits motives of ambition and heroism, with a moment of love. The climax is vigorous. Without being at all ariose, the symphony is full of melody.
Fugue writing had become so natural and easy for him, that he was able to finish his task in a fraction of the time allotted by the examiners. When he returned home several hours before the other students had finished, his father reproached him roundly for not spending more time on the test upon which so much depended. With his quiet smile the boy answered he thought the result would be all right.
But he has never given to himself, or to us, the first reason for believing that this endless fugue of rebirths will accomplish that which he accepts without questioning; namely, the ultimate glorification of all souls. There is nothing in this long and tedious process itself which assures us that any soul will reach final beatification rather than permanent and irremediable degradation.
The leader had a voice like the pleasant droning of a bag-pipe, and the faculty of emitting a continuous note like that instrument, without stopping to breathe. It went on and on like a Bach fugue, winding and whining its way, turning the corners of the lines of the catch without a break.
Once more it set bravely out on the road, in the next movement, which was linked with the second, a headstrong fugue, the bold design and insistent rhythm of which captivated, and, through struggles and tears, led on to a mighty march, full of indomitable faith. The last movement depicted the evening of life.
I was astonished how quickly the time flew. In eight weeks I had not only gone through a number of the most intricate fugues, but had also waded through all kinds of difficult evolutions in counterpoint, when one day, on bringing him an extremely elaborate double fugue, he took my breath away by telling me that after this there was nothing left for him to teach me.
If the player has not the control over his fingers to play a piece slowly, he certainly cannot play it fast. Slow practise one difficulty at a time one hand at a time; Napoleon's tactics, 'one division at a time, applies to music study. Above all do not hurry in fugue playing, a universal fault. Bach needs a slower trill than modern music.
It was a good idea, she reflected, having that device on the flag, for it really was a bit of home for them. Poor men! Suddenly a new thought came into her mind. "Look!" she whispered, laying a hand on Jerry's arm and pointing to the Cross, "look! how brightly it shines! Their name liveth for evermore!" Prue had slipped indoors and was playing a grave prelude and fugue of Bach's.
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