Baroque Music: Fugue and its devices

Question 1

Based on fuga, latin for flight

Answer 1

true

Question 2

contrapuntal composition based on imitation

Answer 2

Fugue (true)

Question 3

Main theme is called the subject, and it unifies the work

Answer 3

Fugue (true)

Question 4

Choral or instrumental

Melodic lines are called voices

Answer 4

Fugue (true)

Question 5

exposition and episode

Answer 5

Form

Question 6

Subject is stated alone, in the tonic

subject us imitated in another cove (called the answer) in the dominant

Answer 6

exposition

Question 7

1st voice continues with countersubject
next voice enters with subject
2nd voice continues with c.s.
1st voice continues with a contrapuntal line
depending on number of voices this pattern continues.

Answer 7

Form: exposition and episode

Question 8

once the subject has been stated in all voices the exposition ends

Answer 8

true

Question 9

episodes are interludes between subject statements

serve as areas of relaxation

Answer 9

true

Question 10

Modulation to different keys

contrapuntal devices; inversion, argumentation, retrograde, etc

Answer 10

true

Question 11

different voices present theme in close succession

Answer 11

Stretto