MUS 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Duple And Quadruple Metre, Johann Sebastian Bach, Minuet
27 Feb 2018
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Nice young women that was sent to spain. She was captured by the huns and says he has to marry him or he will kill all of the people that she was with. He shoots her in the stomach with an arrow and became a saint. Contrasts and clarity to develop a unified and rich emotion. Fortspinnung: "spinning out," the organic development of his music around the first few notes played. Devout lutheran, turned marin luther"s simple chorale melodies into complex compositions. A toccata keyboard piece is characterized by many scale passages, rapid runs and trills, and massive chords. A fugue is characterized by its form, containing: Imitation of the subject, with a simultaneous countersubject in the preceding voice. The portion from the beginning of the fugue until all voices have presented the subject is called an exposition. After the exposition comes a series of episodes (explorations of the original melodic idea).
