Fugues

One of the reasons serialism might initially bug people more than, say, Bach fugues, is that there's no established common-tongue emotional reference for a serialist vocabulary, leaving a programmatically-minded listener more at sea. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

The whole afternoon they played so-called fugues, so that I had to go to bed and take medicine. ❋ August Strindberg (1880)

Who, for instance, would choose to be married to a man – okay, a poet – whose manic depression took the form of repeatedly falling in love with other women, declaring he could not live without them, and then leaving you and your child for fugues that inevitably ended up in periods of hospitalization? ❋ Unknown (2009)

That is why we should be pleased that when the peculiar glee of the moment dies down, when the choral fugues of we-told-you-so die out, when we no longer hear ourselves demanding that the UN formally retract its Report of the Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, or demanding that NGOs disband themselves in disgrace, Richard Goldstone will still be with us. ❋ Bradley Burston (2011)

A water fountain in which drops of water, timed in complex rhythmic fugues, fall into glass receptacles. ❋ George Heymont (2010)

The form caught on: in good times, in boom times (these things are expensive), corporations and billionaires have traditionally engaged in competitive fugues of skyscraper building: witness the so-called skyscraper wars of the 1920s, which produced gaggles of towers in lower and mid-Manhattan, a background that I use in the novel. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was about a Suicide Squad-esque group of misfits, special forces soldiers with severe mental problems — MPD, psychogenic fugues, schizophrenia, pathological lying, etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Gone are the overt fugues and chorales, the somber instrumental interludes, and the pervasive sense of indebtedness to the classical music tradition that were prevalent on his debut full-length album. ❋ Daniel J. Kushner (2011)

Two of Bach's English Suites — F major and A minor — and a quartet of Scarlatti sonatas were interspersed with a host of the little preludes and fugues Bach wrote for his students and children. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

Goode certainly exploits that tonal weight and coherence in this recital; the sombre power he generates in the magisterial C minor Passacaglia and Fugue, and the crispness of the bravura flourishes of the Toccata, Adagio and Fugue are equally effective, while the two preludes and fugues, the introspective B minor and distinctly perky G major, are brilliantly contrasted. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The fugues come back and again and again interweave. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He composes Bach-like fugues, often in his sleep, and has studied the dizzying art of M.C. Escher. ❋ Alexandra Alter (2011)

He was torn, too, by his facility in both commercial and fine art, in both music three fugues he composed during the 1920s will be performed at Carnegie Hall next fall and visual art. ❋ Judith H. Dobrzynski (2011)

I can appreciate Bach fugues on so many more levels than a lay listener, having studied them in great detail and having sung them in choirs and performed them on a number of instruments. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now that organ is gone but the mother music still plays those rich red dirges and fugues inside that chamber so lusty with echoes. ❋ Misti Rainwater-Lites (2011)

The Four Sketches live up to their title a bit too literally, but Schumann enthusiasts will be intrigued by the set of fugues using the BACH motif, for they are rarely heard, and their strenuous counterpoint sounds very unlike his usual keyboard style. ❋ Andrew Clements (2010)