Path 11
Variations and fugue
Two ways of making much from little: a theme changed again and again, and a subject passed from voice to voice.
Bach → Mozart → Beethoven → Mendelssohn → Brahms → Elgar
Grosse Fuge in B-flat major, Op. 133
This guide follows Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge in B-flat major, Op. 133 (1825) in one part (fugue).
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The states the in and then in different rhythms, and ends with a for the first violin. Then the loud, driving first fugue starts. Next the music drops to a slow, hushed (fugue-like passage) in G-flat major. A leads to fast, -like music, and in the a new fugue in A-flat major stretches the out, breaks it up and turns it upside down. The home of B-flat in the . The gathers earlier .
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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