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Fugue

The fugue of the Prelude, Fugue and Allegro has a ternary form (A-B-A). Section A is the actual fugue, while section B freely develops the thematic material of the fugue. Click on the sections for detailed analysis.

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Exposition, bars 1 to 9

It is a three-part fugue. The answer is a tonal answer and the order of the voices is soprano, alto, bass:

This fugue is of type c0s- according to our Fugues Expositions Classification Using Circles. This is the type most often used by Bach in three-part fugues.
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