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127: 357: 246: 223: 200: 260: 486: 341:. In the following passage, bars 119–132, the theme is stated in the first violin with simple accompanying chord of the off-beats (bars 119–122). When repeated in bars 127–132, the viola and 'cello lead with the theme and the violins follow closely at one beat’s distance. This has the effect of “forever deceiving the listener as to where the main beat comes.” 284: 275: 166:, especially in the final section. In stretto, the subject is presented in one voice and then imitated in one or more other voices, with the imitation starting before the subject has finished. The subject is therefore superimposed upon itself 346: 347: 170:. Stretto is typically employed near the end of a fugue, where the 'piling-up' of two or more temporally off-set statements of the subject signals the arrival of the fugue's conclusion in climactic fashion. 189: 235: 212: 283: 48: 301: 190: 236: 213: 471:
Wigmore, R. (2020, p.7) liner notes to the CD recording Joseph Haydn, String quartets Op. 76/4–6. Played by the Chiaroscuro Quartet. Sweden BIS records AB.
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serves to display contrapuntal prowess, as in the Fugue No. 9 in E major, BWV 878, where Bach follows a traditional exposition (subject accompanied by
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Fugal stretto techniques may also be found in pieces that are not themselves fugues, such as the boisterous finale of
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In the final bars, the entries are even closer, with the upper two voices following at a distance of just one beat:
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Book 1 (BWV 846) opens with an initial succession of statements of the subject, each at a distance of six beats:
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As the musical argument proceeds, the gap between the entries closes to two beats:
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in close succession, so that the answer enters before the subject is completed.
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Stuart Berg Flexner; Eugene Ehrlich; Joyce M. Hawkins; Gorton Carruth (1982).
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Book 2, Prelude and Fugue No. 9 in E major (BWV 878)
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Etude Op. 10, No. 12, "The Revolutionary."
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[ˈstretto]
fugue
â€čSee Tfdâ€ș
German
imitation
subject
aria
movement
Franz Liszt
transcendental etude No.10
Beethoven
Fifth Symphony
Chopin
Ballade No. 3
Prelude No. 4 in E minor
Etude Op. 10, No. 12, "The Revolutionary."

J. S. Bach
The Well Tempered Clavier
subject
Italian
stringere
fugue
contrapuntally
J. S. Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier



Book 1, Fugue No. 1 in C major (BWV 846)

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