Fugues
half the speed (augmentation), or a combination of these. 15 This evident in many of his fugues. It is this inexhaustible arsenal of development methods that causes Bach’s work to differ so much from everyone else’s, including Handel’s, fugues. My analysis of Bach’s work found several examples of these development methods, such as his use of augmentation and inversion in ‘Fugue in C minor’ (BWV871); see Figure 7.
Figure 7: Excerpt from Bach’s ‘Fugue in C minor’ (BWV871) , showing augmentation and inversion (orange brackets and highlighting).
Figure 8: Excerpt from Handel’s ‘Fugue no.6 in C minor’ (HWV610) , developing his ideas through stretto overlapping subjects (red) and answers (green), navigating through different keys (light green).
15 Bruce, D., 2020. Variation: 14Ways To Compose With One Idea . [online] YouTube. Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJfvFqT9XV8> [Accessed 21 July 2020].
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