West Point Organist Craig Williams plays the eighth prelude and fugue in Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Volume I. Like the D Major Fugue, this prelude takes on a French dance-like character, resembling a Courante - in 3/2 time with running figurations among its stately chords and arpeggios. The fugue is in three voices but takes on monumental proportions as it explores the initial subject in inversion (up-side-down, or mirrored), augmentation (where note values are doubled) and stretto (where statements of the subject enter on top of each other). How the voices are layered creates a sense of constant motion, only briefly interrupted by occasional cadence points - which provide the listener with a sense of harmonic arrival before the collected voices begin moving again. The fugue finally ends when all voices join together in moving chords to a dramatic close.
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Негізгі бет Bach: Prelude in e-flat/Fugue in d#, BWV 853 (D. Jacques Way Harpsichord)
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