Baroque Music Era Pt. 3

30 August 2022
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The main theme of a fugue is called the
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When the subject of a fugue is presented in the dominant scale, it is called the
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countersubject
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In many fugues, the subject in one voice is constantly accompanied in another voice by a different melodic idea called a
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episodes
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Transitional sections of a fugue that offer either new material or fragments of the subject or countersubject are called
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Stretto
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is a musical procedure in which a fugue subject is imitated before it is completed
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A pedal point
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is a single tone, usually in the bass, that is held while the other voices produce a series of changing harmonies against it
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inversion
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Turning the subject of a fugue upside down, or reversing the direction of each interval, is called
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retrograde
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Presenting the subject of a fugue going from right to left, or beginning with the last and proceeding backward to the first note, is called
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augmentation
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Presenting the subject of a fugue in lengthened time values is called
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diminution
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Presenting the subject of a fugue in shortened time values is called