The 2nd/3rd Fugues in The Art of Fugue: What is a Clavichord? Our first countersubject!
The WTF Bach Podcast
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The Third Fugue From the Artifue
Bach's third fugue from the artifue is played upside down. The shape of the melody has to be changed in order for it to stay in D minor. Bach uses this first note as its access point, that D as the point of rotation. But if I take the second note, for example, and I use that as the access point, now it sounds like this.
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