Fugue in D♯ minor (WTC 2 No. 8), BWV 877
This guide follows Bach’s Fugue in D♯ minor (WTC 2 No. 8), BWV 877 (1741) in one part (fugue).
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A dark, intense fugue. The begins with three eighth notes just off the beat that insist on the home note (the ), then climbs to the , the fifth step of the scale, and falls back. Against it come a rising companion line (the countersubject) and the upside down. Two visits to the major mode soften the gloom, and a long without the builds tension. Then the starts. In the , marked as the , the in the bass while two upper voices echo it, one inverted.
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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