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	Amazon.co.uk: Bach - The Art of Fugue; A Musical Offering: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus 9, a 4, alla Duodecima
		The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus 10, a 4, alla Decima
		The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Fuga a 3 Soggetti (unfinished)
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000041A6 (1663 words)

	The Art of Fugue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Art of Fugue or The Art of the Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV 1080, is an unfinished work by Johann Sebastian Bach composed in 1748-1749 and published after his death in 1750.
		The piece is written in parts score without instrument designation, although all of it fits the range of commonly available keyboard instruments of Bach's time, and is playable by a keyboard soloist; Bach possibly intended it to be playable on a range of instruments, and on a variety of instrumental combinations.
		In 2004, Kenneth Amis arranged the fugues and canons for wind ensemble.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Art_of_Fugue (1182 words)

	The Art of Fugue for band
		Today, most scholars agree that The Art of Fugue is a harpsichord work consisting of fourteen fugues and four canons all in the same key (originally D minor) and all utilizing the same motto theme.
		Nevertheless, the Art of Fugue took the idea of contrapuntal design to a new level and represents the work of a seasoned composer at the height of his artistic and intellectual genius.
		Whether a movement from The Art of Fugue is performed alone or is made part of a larger programmatic design, after the performance, a listener should be thoroughly convinced of the absurdity of the antiquated notion that this work was only meant to be heard in one’s mind and not performed.
	www.amismusicalcircle.com /band/wb-046.htm (1213 words)

	Intro to the Art of Fugue
		Whereas the Art of Fugue manifests its greatness in thematic transformation and fugue, the Musical Offering and Vom himmel hoch demonstrate the rigors of canon, while the Goldberg develops a variety of keyboard styles unified by two-part form and bass line.
		The Art of Fugue stands as counterpart to Bach's earlier Well Tempered Clavier whose double cycle of preludes and fugues in each of twelve Major, and minor, keys represents tonal miniatures wherein the primary relationships are procedural, not thematic.
		Recent handwriting analysis, and study of watermarks in the autograph, suggest that the Art of Fugue was composed in the early 1740's.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/introaof.html (690 words)

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		Summary of the evening Art of Fugue Lectures, April 30 - May 14, 2004 [ ] The Art of Fugue (Kunst der Fuge - from now on abbreviated as KdF) is in fact a triple art: art of composing a fugue art of playing a fugue art of listening to a fugue.
		The main task of the art of listening to a fugue is to achieve the right balance between the perception of the melodies, and the perception of the harmony.
		Fugue 12 Rectus: In the two versions of a mirror fugue (rectus and inversus), the pitches of all the voices are inverted as in a mirror.
	www.phys.washington.edu /users/vladi/bach/Program_Notes_final_corrected.doc (3984 words)

	Simple Fugues from the Art of Fugue
		The third fugue transforms the subject by means of melodic inversion.
		The fugue's exposition is comprised of four such statements.
		Whereas the subject of that fugue began with the ascending fifth do-sol, this subject begins with the opposite: sol-do.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/simplefuguesaof.html (583 words)

	Sleeve Notes - Bach-Simpson: The Art of Fugue
		Bach's The Art of Fugue is universally upheld as a major intellectual tour de force of Western civilisation; one of the great wonders of musical art.
		The Art of Fugue was regarded as a labyrinthine exercise; a drily academic tangle of uncommon severity.
		Beyond the hub of Bach's continent The Art of Fugue was now reconsidered with equal zeal, thought of less as the last, disordered, creative gasp of a dying man and more as the comprehensive, consummate summation of Bach's immeasurable genius.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /notes/67138.html (1545 words)

	BACH The Art of Fugue, arr. Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (Channel) - INKPOT
		The Art of Fugue starts slowly but its ingenuity comes in many forms, from the individual writing to the combination of parts which have to be brought out against the background of the others.
		In 1774, Kirnberger wrote "the Art of Fugue is more difficult in the entire science of compositions than this, each of the four voices have not only its own fluent melody, but all of them have a uniform character which is maintained so that in their union, a single perfect whole is created".
		There are many new areas of the fugue which when played on a single instrument could be lost and this is where four different instruments (or 17 as the case may be) make the Art much more clearer.
	inkpot.com /classical/bachfuguealsq.html (1480 words)

	J.S.Bach's The Art of Fugue: An Enigma Resolved
		J.S.Bach's The Art of Fugue: An Enigma Resolved
		J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue: An Enigma Resolved
		The Art of Fugue was one of three pieces written for the society.
	www.fdavidpeat.com /bibliography/essays/dentler.htm (1246 words)

	Amazon.com: Bach: The Art of Fugue: Music: Johann Sebastian Bach,Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I told him it was the Art of the Fugue, whereby he smiled, returned to the bathroom, and continued pounding away at the drywall (albeit with an enlightened sense of counterpoint I'd like to think).
		Bach: Art of the Fugue / Keller Quartet ~ J.S. Bach
		Bach J.S.: The Art of Fugue (Ger) ~ Goebel
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000I595?v=glance (1244 words)

	The Art of the Fugue
		A mirror fugue is a pair of fugues in which each voice (or line) in the second fugue is a mirror image of the first - where the first goes up, the other goes down.
		The absence of the principal Art of Fugue theme initially gave rise to speculation that this movement didn't belong to the Art of Fugue at all.
		The canon is the strictest form of counterpoint in that the second voice imitates all the rhythms and all of the intervals of the first voice.
	pipedreams.publicradio.org /articles/artoffugue/fugue2.shtml (845 words)

	NCSQ - The Art of Fugue
		The Breitkopf and Härtel edition of "The Art of Fugue" was used as the basis for this recording, due to its close resemblance to original manuscript and first editions.
		This fugue is not normally performed or recorded because it is set for two soprano and two baritone parts, and is thus very difficult for any standard ensemble to undertake, saxophone quartet included.
		Because of this limitation, one of the recorded fugues had to be omitted for the final version of the disc.
	www.newcenturysax.com /theartoffugue.htm (1632 words)

	The Art of Fugue
		Bach and the fugue have become so closely associated that Art of Fugue, as Bach's ultimate statement on the subject, commands great interest in and of itself.
		Written in Bach's last years, while he slowly went blind, Art of Fugue trails off unfinished in the climactic four-part fugue which would have crowned the work as well as his career.
		B A C H. Of such things are legends born, and scholars and performers have been arguing about it ever since.
	pipedreams.publicradio.org /articles/artoffugue/index.shtml (229 words)

	The Art of Fugue, by Hesperion XX and Jordi Savall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Jordi Savall's arrangement of the Art of Fugue was bold and unique, and his scoring, for two instrumental groups (four winds and four viols), was innovative.
		Bach's Art of Fugue, is, as Jordi Savall says in his liner notes, "a work full of mystery".
		It is a compendium of fugues and canons, all based on the same subject, with an unfinished fugue at the end.
	www.mcelhearn.com /bach/bach_aof_savall.html (713 words)

	Arts at Argonne -- Brentano String Quartet
		A compilation of fugues based on a single subject (and its variations), the Art of the Fugue seems to be an exhaustive study of the possibilities of the form, a composer testing his mettle, expanding his horizons.
		At the end of the extant section of the fugue Bach combines these three themes, and in fact it has been shown that it is possible to further combine them with the Art of Fugue theme as a fourth, as most scholars believe Bach intended had he completed the work.
		Tonally, the fugue is based on the pien (variable) modes that I have been developing since 1960 out of variable modal theories, as well as the ying-yang concept of opposing forces and the I Jing theory of interactive transformation.
	www.anl.gov /ARTS/0304_brentano.html (3592 words)

	OrganFocus.com Featured Event: Walter Hilse plays Bach's The Art of Fugue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The canons were a pleasant variation to the complexity of the fugues.
		In the context of the rest of the performance, though, Dr Hilse's interpretation of the canon was a logical interlude between fugues VI and VII and made perfect sense that way.
		After the last notes of the fugue hung in the air, clean and pure, it was also the sound that started the sublimely beautiful chorale, Vor deinen Thron.
	www.organfocus.com /features/reviews/walterhilse.php3 (500 words)

	Amazon.com: Bach: The Art of the Fugue: Music: Johann Sebastian Bach,Glenn Gould (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		`Art of the Fugue' is nothing like the Goldberg Variations where Gould's touch made the music beautiful, especially the first slow movement (which he actually plays very slowly and hence compensates for the staccato).
		Bach: The Art of the Fugue (Excerpts); Prelude & Fugue on BACH ~ Johann Sebastian Bach
		Bach: The Art of the Fugue ~ Johann Sebastian Bach
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006FI8C?v=glance (1828 words)

	"The Art of the Fugue" by Stefan Rieger
		" Glenn Gould - The Art of the Fugue " by Stefan Rieger
		Part I - " The Art of the Fugue " - is an attempt to apprehend the phenomenon of Gould, his philosophy of art and his strategy of " cheating " time.
		But rhetoric is not just the art of beauteous expression, it is also the art of arousing emotions with the help of words, an art which is codified in an extremely complicated "theory of affects".
	www.gould.verbanet.com.pl (1826 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bach - Keyboard Works: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Art Of The Fugue, BWV1080: Canon alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta
		The Art Of The Fugue: Contrapunctus 9 alla Duodecima
		The Art Of The Fugue: Contrapunctus 10 alla Decima
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	The Art of Fugue
		The Art of Fugue (Colm Carey, organ) Signum SIGCD027
		I followed The Art of Fugue on the single CD-ROM which has "J S Bach Complete Works for Organ plus The Art of Fugue and Musical Offering" (over 900 pages), from the CD Sheet Music Series distributed by Theodore Presser Co. LLC, New York, at absurdly low prices (www.cdsheetmusic.com).
		A mini-drama unfolds which can also be gripping, following the related fugue subjects in their various shapes and guises: a counter-subject becoming the fugue subject, the melody heard in augmentation or inversion but all in one key; that of D minor.
	www.signumrecords.com /catalogue/sigcd027/reviews.htm (1009 words)

	CD Baby: PETER ELYAKIM TAUSSIG: J.S. BACH: The Art of the Fugue
		The Art of the Fugue is the first release.
		A rare solo piano recording of The Art of the Fugue launches the monumental 18 CD series of the complete keyboard works of Bach.
		Bach died while working on the final fugue and in the most poignant moment the CD suddenly breaks off at the precise point where in the manuscript Bach's son wrote: "At this point where the name B-A-C-H appears as a musical theme the composer died".
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/taussig (355 words)

	Chicago Symphony Orchestra - April 15, 16, 17: Bach (arr. Nodaira)/Schubert/Bruckner
		At this week's concerts, Kent Nagano conducts three selections from The Art of Fugue in recent orchestrations by Japanese composer and pianist Ichiro Nodaïra, who was born in Tokyo in 1953 and studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music and at the Paris Conservatory.
		Counterpoint 1 is the first of Bach's simple fugues: it introduces the subject in its pure form and proceeds to demonstrate "textbook" fugue technique, with straightforward harmony and rhythm.
		The single subject that generates all the selections in The Art of the Fugue is a sequence of twelve notes, in an accelerating pattern, in D minor.
	www.cso.org /main.taf?p=5,5,1,33 (2853 words)

	Bach's Art of Fugue, performed by Phantasm. Reviewed by Bernard D. Sherman in The New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		But simply listening to "The Art of Fugue," as opposed to studying or playing it, is like watching a chess game without seeing the whole board.
		Dreyfus emphasizes, "The Art of Fugue" is full of emotion and also of "fascinating commentary" on the musical world in which Bach lived.
		Since the 1920's, of course, transcription has been the most common way of performing "The Art of Fugue"; what is notable about Phantasm's transcription is that the instruments are anachronistic in the opposite direction from the usual.
	homepages.kdsi.net /~sherman/phantasm.html (1617 words)

	Bach: The Art of the Fugue - Joseph and Grete Dichler - Bach Heritage Performances BHP 909
		Bach: The Art of the Fugue - Joseph and Grete Dichler - Bach Heritage Performances BHP 909
		"The Art of the Fugue" (Die Kunst der Fuge), as its name implies, was intended as, and effectively provides, a complete treatise on the art of fugal composition, dealing with every type of fugal treatment from the simplest to the most complex.
		We would never have expected that a two-piano version of The Art of the Fugue would be among our favorite performances — but such has indeed been the case for many years — we never tire of it.
	www.baroque-music-club.com /909Web.html (529 words)

	Bach: The Art of Fugue / Musical Offering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Of the five CDs of J.S. Bach's The Art Of The Fugue recently acquired, this is my least favorite.
		This last, highly-systematic composition of Bach was his summation of the art of contrapunctal composition.
		While he died before finishing it, what he left is some of the most intricate, intelligent and daunghting music of the counterpoint style.
	www.abmbirds.com /reviews/B0000041A6 (290 words)

	Die Kunst der Fuge [The Art of the Fugue]
		Below the unfinished nineteenth contrapunto, a quadruple fugue, his son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, writes with a good sense of drama: 'Über dieser Fuge, wo der Nahme BACH im Contrasubject angebracht worden ist, ist der Verfasser gestorben ['While working on this fugue, which features the name BACH in the counter subject, the author died'].
		According to Cage, structure, method, and form of The Art of the Fugue are all determined.
		The order of the individual fugues is subject to change.) Frequency and duration are also determined.
	www.cobussen.com /proefschrift/400_j_s_bach/460_art_of_fugue/art_of_fugue.htm (1081 words)

	Bach: The Art of Fugue / Musical Offering - toolsandreviews.com Info and Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		There are many apocryphal stories in the classical-music world, but the one in which Frederick the Great challenged Bach to improvise a six-part fugue on a theme of the king's own invention is true, and The Musical Offering was, after a period of further reflection, the result.
		As with all the works of Bach's later years, the work is both great art and a "teaching piece," which shows everything that he thought could be done with the king's theme.
		The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Canon per Augmentationem in contrario motu
	www.toolsandreviews.com /shop/asinsearch_B0000041A6.html (758 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of the Fugue & A Musical Offering - Bøger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Includes a piano reduction of the Art of the Fugue.
		This is a STUDY edition rather than a performing edition of JS Bach's "The Art of the Fugue" and "A Musical Offering".
		The Art of Fugue was originally written in open score, to emphasize that the performance instrument was not specified.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/cd_details.php/0486270068\|music (426 words)

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