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. |
At the premiere Handel gave an organ extemporisation on the fugal subject taken up by the choir. |
And Handel was no less rigorous and independent in his exploitation of fugal material by inferior composers. |
The cadenza's fugal opening was arresting, followed by Beethovenian drama and power. |
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. |