MUS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, Piano Sonata, Short Film

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Music
• Course: MUS 100
• Professor: Yingchao Han

Document Summary

Keyboard music: keyboard music is written for private and public performances, solo keyboard music usually features extensive use of chords. Fugue: polyphonic genre/technique with 2+ voices built on a subject, usually instrumental genre, can be an independent piece, can be a movement of a large-scale piece, can be a section of a movement, usually has 3 sections. Structure of a fugue: begins with the exposition. Second voice enters with the subject in another key. Etc: several episodes based upon elements heard in exposition after all the voices enter. Features many modulations: some final entries of the subject back in the tonic. (cid:862)little(cid:863) fugue for orga(cid:374) i(cid:374) g mi(cid:374)or: writte(cid:374) for bach"s favorite i(cid:374)stru(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, features a long subject with a sense of gathering momentum, music with both emotional and rational parts. Prelude and fugue in c minor: first musical work written for all 24 majors and minors, prelude is fast and virtuosic, features many harmony changes, short subject.