1. Discuss the exposition to a 4-voice Baroque fugue and how subsequent expositions are connected. Include at least one musical example. 15 pts.

What an exposition does is establish a key, introduce the subject, and bring in all voices. It is the opening of a fugue. A fugue is a polyphonic work based on a subject using counterpoint and imitation. A fugue has four parts tonic, dominant, tonic, dominant. A Tonic is the name of the key, or your home base. So, if you are in the key of c major, c is your tonic. The dominant is a dissonant chord 5 notes above the tonic. The first tonic will introduce the subject with voice one. Voices 2-3 are doing nothing. Next the dominant will have a counter subject followed by an answer. Voice 1 will provide the counter subject. Voice 2 will provide the answer. The third part is tonic with free material followed by counter subject and another subject. Voice 1 free material, voice 2 counter subject, voice 3 subject. Last is dominant with free material twice, then counter subject, with …show more content…
After Beethoven nobody writes more than 9. What really set Beethoven apart is the idea of heroic music. He would mess with the audience by changing them from a passive listener to an active listener. This was very controversial for the time. Heroic music is taking the mind of the composer and putting it in the mind of the audience. Beethoven wanted you to feel what he feels and think what he is thinking. Beethoven took the ideas of classical form and began to mess with it. Things were you expect it to be he will change it, or he will draw your attention to a certain moment in the music then lead you in another direction. A good example would be Lenore Overture