What is a Fugue? 

Thank you for being so straightforward. You didn’t confuse me with too much info. You just kept it to what was important-the subject.

Very informative, awesome presentation. I love Internet teachers, really.

Thanks for the video. I was going to play a fugue for my grade 8 piano, but I actually didn't like it and found it hard to understand and get through. This was very helpful in understanding what I was attempting to play.

Good Exlplained 👍. Thank you Dave

Excellent

I still love this video, and am always happy that Dave used my performance to be the example. If you'd like to download a whole bunch of fugues, free, my Bach recordings are available here: music.kimiko-piano.com

Wonderful! Can I add portugueses subtitles in your video?

Nice analysis but incomplete without mentioning the function and Bach's use of the COUNTE-SUBJECT!

I would like someone's opinion of a Fugue I wrote and posted on RU-vid. It's called "Ms Pac-Man Fugue and Allegro". I used the format for this very fugue, and just inserted the Ms Pac-Man song everywhere that the subject was... Only I had two voices to start, then two more voices, then two more for a total of six voices. Also, I noticed that in the Bach C minor Fugue portrayed here, the Alto part does a downward scale leading into a set second melody to accompany the subject by the soprano... And then every time the subject is played throughout, one of the voices does that same downward scale and second Melody. (I only just now noticed it because I saw another RU-vid video where the guy said fugues use a second subject). Do all fugues have a second Melody like that? Or is it just optional for the sake of cleverness?

Can someone please tell me the name of the fugue in the example?

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Very difficult to see a round on your own…

Wow, this is amazingly easy and clear! Thank you so much! (from Korea)

Great stuff, nicely explained. Except one bit (which makes you explain more in lower comments): counterpoint doesn't need to contain same material. There is a subject. And there is a counterpoint below/ around/ above. They even might be of the opposite character. Using canon technique to explain might be confusing.

This was so helpful and clear. Thank you :)

Thanks for the video. as someone who has no technical knowledge of music, i love your explanations. easy to follow. i was really able to appreciate this piece after your explanation of how it was put together around the subject matter.

It's so wonderful to have new content from you! And the site is lookin' snazzy, these days! :D

Thank you good sir. This will help me in my classes indeed.

Thanks! A very good addition.

Thank you a lot~ I learned alot here~ have a good day!

Great video! Also, I have been curious about a few things, so it'd be great if you can do another lesson about how to create variation from a phrase and explain what motive development is.

thanks. this is great.

well done

Thanks!

Thanks.

Thanks!!! Really helped me a lot :D

great video really. to make sure I got the definitions right could you please correct me . isn't counterpoint the same as 'canon' and imitation the same as 'variations'?

very wordy presentation. needs editing

what is a fyeeg?

Hi, I have a question. Since this piece has three voices, how could it possible be played by single person in piano?

hi there, a fugue is a french word that means an escape

so, if I play the first in the ket of D, the second melody will be played in the key of D?!?! because, playing in another key wont sounds dissonant ?

In the exposition, the alto voice plays a tonal answer. You left out this!

One thing you did not say when creating a Fugue it advised that the root or tonic of the scale in use has to come first in your melody to reduce the chance of a horrid dischord being created when the instrumental sections overlap.

@9:37 - "each of the voice have their moment to shine". Not true, the bass only plays the subject 2 times.

That's not a tenor, it's a bass!

It's not Tenor, it's Bass.