Composer : | Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750) | ||||
Instrumentation : | Organ solo5 other versions | ||||
Style : | Baroque | ||||
Arranger : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
Publisher : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL | ||||
Copyright : | Public Domain | ||||
Added by magataganm, 12 Sep 2016 Fugue in G minor, BWV 578, (popularly known as the Little Fugue), is a piece of organ music written by Johann Sebastian Bach during his years at Arnstadt (1703–1707). It is one of Bach's best known fugues and has been arranged for other voices, including an orchestral version by Leopold Stokowski. Early editors of Bach's work attached this title to distinguish it from the later Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, which is longer in duration. The "Little" G minor's four-and-a-half-measure subject is one of Bach's most widely recognized tunes. It is worked out in four voices, the pedal voice being honored as the full equal of the three manual voices -- even to the extent that the feet are required, in one electrifying passage late in the Fugue, to have a go at a sixteenth note figuration of the countersubject. During the episodes, Bach employs one of Corelli's most beloved sequential gestures: imitation between two voices on an eighth note upbeat figure that first leaps up a fourth and then falls back down one step at a time. And those who love to find precise, mathematical structural divisions and markers in Bach's music will enjoy noting that it is in the 33rd measure -- one measure shy of the exact midpoint of BWV 578 -- that Bach first introduces the subject in a key outside the tonic-dominant loop of the exposition. Source: AllMusic (http://www.allmusic.com/composition/fugue-for-organ-in -g-minor-little-bw...). I created this transcription of the Fugue in G minor (BWV 578 "Little") for Pipe Organ. Sheet central : | Fugue en Sol mineur (28 sheet music) | |
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