fugue
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“He’s the Rock of Ages of music,” says Carpenter, who particularly loves the fugue nicknamed “St. Anne” and the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025
Miller appeared to kick off the signing ceremony, entering to Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" and looking suitably vampiric.
From Salon • May 4, 2025
"Fugue Americaine" is a fictitious story about the late legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz and tells of the travels of brothers Franz and Oskar Wertheimer to Cuba to attend one of his concerts.
From Reuters • May 3, 2023
Jacobs’s textures were also beautifully varied in the “Prière,” the trumpet mellowed by the vast space without losing its focus; the “Prélude, Fugue et Variation” was a wistful nocturne, sensitively controlled and never overblown.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2022
Fugue — A fugue usually has at least three independent parts, or voices.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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