At the premiere Handel gave an organ extemporisation on the fugal subject taken up by the choir. |
If she conceives of it as a fugue, she uses techniques of counterpoint and fugal structure to make the piece. |
There follows a chapter on the three fugal finales from op.20, its start a high point of felicitous writing. |
He excelled the skills even of Frescobaldi in the manipulation of fugal devices such as countersubject, stretto and sustained pedalpoint. |
There are seven movements, the first six slow, sparely scored, and pregnant with anticipation before the finale explodes into a furious fugal dash to the abyss. |
In the second movement, for example, it appears pretty much as itself, while in the trio of the scherzo third, Antheil transforms it into a fugal subject. |