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Fugue.
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This fughetta is for five voices. It begins like a close fugue (§ 279); and it will be seen that at the entry of the fifth voice (tenor), in bar 5, the subject is varied. Handel's fugues are usually freer than Bach's. There is no episode at all, but there is a fragmentary group of middle entries (bars 7 to 10). This embryo middle section, if we may so term it, is followed by a final entry of the subject in the tonic key (bar 12), and a short coda completes the movement.
356. Another variety of the fughetta form is that which consists merely of a complete exposition, followed by one final entry of the subject by the voice that first led. A very neat specimen of this variety is the following, taken from one of Mozart's Masses.
Mozart. Mass in F, No. 6.
