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Topic: Vocal fugues??  (Read 2032 times)

Offline musikalischer_wirbelwind_280

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Vocal fugues??
on: July 08, 2016, 06:23:58 AM
You know, like Glenn Gould's "So you want to write a fugue?"; does anybody here know of any other fugues where the parts are sung?

Cheers,
M.W.

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Re: Vocal fugues??
Reply #1 on: July 08, 2016, 01:02:21 PM





fugue starts at 2:00

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Re: Vocal fugues??
Reply #2 on: July 08, 2016, 10:02:23 PM
Good heavens.  There are lots and lots of them.  Two notable ones occur in the Brahms and Berlioz Requiems.

They're all over the place!
Ian

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Re: Vocal fugues??
Reply #3 on: July 10, 2016, 04:12:25 PM
Brahms motet "Warum ist das Licht gegeben" contains a beautiful vocal fugue.

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Re: Vocal fugues??
Reply #4 on: July 12, 2016, 05:52:55 PM
Thank you so much for all the suggestions! ;) I didn't know they were so numerous, ian. That one from the Brahms motet is just wondrous!!

Any further suggestions are, of course, very much welcome.

Cheers,
M.W.
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