BACH'S ' THE ART OF FUGUE '
Played by JAMES CHING
Sixth and Seventh Fugues
THE Sixth Fugue has a. sub-title ' In the French style'—an allusion to the manner uf the French ' Overture' and its sprightly rhythms.
He also starts his second voice ' after only three notes of the first have been uttered, and it enters inverted, at twice the speed of the first voice. The third voice (Alto) is uninverted, but still in quicker-moving notes. The fourth (Tenor) is again inverted.
Seventh Fugue. Now only half a dozen notes of the tune (these being half the length of those it had in the Sixth Fugue) are heard before the second voice enters, inverted and in notes twice as long as those of the first voice—the opposite procedure, as regards length, to that of Fugue Six. Then, three bars later, the tune enters in the Bass, in notes of quadruple length.