Format : Score and Parts
SKU: CY.CC2683
J. S. Bach's massive work, The Art of Fugue, is a summation of his powers as a composer of contrapuntal music. Each fugue is a masterpiece in its own right. Number 15 is an unfinished four-voice, quadruple fugue. Only the first three subjects are introduced, the third being a chromatic subject built from the letters of Bach's name—B (B-flat), A, C, H (B-natural). Just at the point where all three subjects are combined, the manuscript breaks off, and C. P. E. Bach wrote in the score that the composer has died. Bach clearly intended that the original Art of Fugue theme was to be the final subject and all four themes would combine in a glorious climax. Whether he intended to finish the work or leave it up to others to complete is conjecture. About 8 minutes in length.
SKU: CY.CC2679
J. S. Bach's massive work, The Art of Fugue, is a summation of his powers as a composer of contrapuntal music. Each fugue is a masterpiece in its own right. Number Eleven is a four-voice, triple fugue that uses all three subjects from Number Eight but in both direct and inverted forms. About 6 minutes in length.
SKU: CY.CC2680
J. S. Bach's massive work, The Art of Fugue, is a summation of his powers as a composer of contrapuntal music. Each fugue is a masterpiece in its own right. Number Twelve is a four-voice, mirror fugue in 3/2 meter—the only fugue in this meter. It uses the original Art of Fugue theme in the Rectus and then all the voices are turned upside down in the Inversus. About 5 minutes in length.
SKU: CY.CC2682
J. S. Bach's massive work, The Art of Fugue, is a summation of his powers as a composer of contrapuntal music. Each fugue is a masterpiece in its own right. Number Fourteen is a four voice, double fugue that is an earlier version of Number Ten. It was included in the first edition of The Art of Fugue. About 3 minutes in length.
SKU: CY.CC2681
J. S. Bach's massive work, The Art of Fugue, is a summation of his powers as a composer of contrapuntal music. Each fugue is a masterpiece in its own right. Number Thirteen is a three-voice, mirror fugue that introduces a new form of the original Art of Fugue theme in the Rectus and then turns everything upside down in the Inversus. About 5 minutes in length.
SKU: CY.CC2678
J. S. Bach's massive work, The Art of Fugue, is a summation of his powers as a composer of contrapuntal music. Each fugue is a masterpiece in its own right. Number Ten is a four-voice, double fugue with use of stretto. A new theme is introduced that combines with the original Art of Fugue theme, this time inverted. Double counterpoint is used at the interval of a 10th. About 3 minutes in length.
SKU: CY.CC2671
J. S. Bach's massive work, The Art of Fugue, is a summation of his powers as a composer of contrapuntal music. Each fugue is a masterpiece in its own right. Number Three is a four-voice fugue that uses an inverted form of the original theme with considerable chromaticism in the accompanying voices. About 3 minutes in length.
SKU: CY.CC2675
J. S. Bach's massive work, The Art of Fugue, is a summation of his powers as a composer of contrapuntal music. Each fugue is a masterpiece in its own right. Number Seven is a four-voice, stretto fugue with the subject direct and inverted with diminution and augmentation. About 3 minutes in length.
SKU: CY.CC2673
J. S. Bach's massive work, The Art of Fugue, is a summation of his powers as a composer of contrapuntal music. Each fugue is a masterpiece in its own right. Number Five is a four-voice, stretto fugue with the main subject answered by inversion. About 3 ½ minutes in length.
