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Fugue HISTORY AND PRACTICE IMOGENE HORSLEY Fugue HISTORY AND PRACTICE The Free Press, New York Collier-Macmillan Limited, London C opyright © 1966 by The Free Press A DIVISION OF THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. Collier-Macmillan Canada, Ltd., Toronto, Ontario Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-19797 Acknowledgments M y primary debt is to Darius Milhaud and Walter Piston under whom I studied fugue as a student. I should also like to thank Dr. Fred Blum of the Music Division of the Li- brary of Congress, Professor Bathia Churgin of Vassar College, Professor Frederick Freedman of the University of California at Los Angeles, Professor Allen Forte of Yale University, and Professor Henry L. Woodward of Carleton College for their assistance and advice, and Mrs. Paul Stoughton for her patient help in preparing the manuscript. I. H. Contents Introduction Abbreviations Canon in the Development of Western Music Analyzing and Writing Canons Fugue: Preliminaries The Subject and Answer in Fugue: History Writing the Subject, Answer, and Counter- subject The Exposition, Counterexposition, and Later VI. Statements of the Subject Fugue and Form: History Planning and Writing a Fugue VIII. Fugues with More Than One Subject Fugue in the Development of Western Music Appendix I Appendix u Appendix II Index [vi] Fugue HISTORY AND PRACTICE
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