Fugal in a sentence

Brandon Fugal, owner of Skinwalker Ranch, poses for a photo at Homestead Three, one of several building sites on the property in rural Uintah County on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023.

Act 1 1. A short orchestral prelude with a busy, fugal opening theme, followed by a second theme of more overtly Japanese character, leads straight into the opening scene.

Another clear reference to the baroque is the often complex and virtuosic counterpoint that sometimes follows strict fugal behavior but more often simply allows each performer in the group to assert his voice.

Bach also wrote smaller single fugues, and put fugal sections or movements into many of his more general works.

Beethoven, Quartet in C sharp minor, Op.131, opening fugal exposition Romantic era By the beginning of the Romantic era, fugue writing had become specifically attached to the norms and styles of the Baroque.

Fugal writing is found in works such as fantasias, ricercares and canzonas.

Haydn's most famous fugues can be found in his Sun quartets (op. 20, 1772), of which three have fugal finales.

Haydn was the leader of fugal composition and technique in the Classical era.

However, the major impetus to fugal writing for Mozart was the influence of Baron Gottfried van Swieten in Vienna around 1782.

Hughes, pp. 73–74 In the Savoy operas, fugal style is reserved for making fun of legal solemnity in Trial by Jury and Iolanthe (e.

Like fugal treatment, it is a stimulus that enlivens musical thinking, especially when applied to a series of tones that lend themselves to that treatment.

Milsom, p. 290 Josquin frequently used imitation, especially paired imitation, in writing his motets, with sections akin to fugal expositions occurring on successive lines of the text he was setting.

Ratner and Fallon praise the Second Symphony (1859) as a fine example of orchestral economy and structural cohesion, with passages that show the composer's mastery of fugal writing.

This formulation of the basic rule for fugal improvisation anticipates later sixteenth-century discussions which deal with the improvisational technique at the keyboard more extensively.

Thus it is to be noted that while certain related keys are more commonly explored in fugal development, the overall structure of a fugue does not limit its harmonic structure.

What follows is a chart displaying a fairly typical fugal outline, and an explanation of the processes involved in creating this structure.