. The organ works of Bach. ption of this fuguewould be to call it a double fugue, with threesubjects. Or, if we wish to avoid the bull, wemay say that it consists of a double and singlefugue, the first subject of the former being used as acounter-subject in the latter. Here is the formula ; A. B. fC. B and A combined. [C and A combined. 230 THE ORGAN WORKS OF BACH The feeling of unity that results from thisunusual scheme is remarkable, seeing that A inits combination with B and C undergoes suchrhythmical changes and is opposed by suchanimated matter that it might easily passunobserved by a lis
. The organ works of Bach. ption of this fuguewould be to call it a double fugue, with threesubjects. Or, if we wish to avoid the bull, wemay say that it consists of a double and singlefugue, the first subject of the former being used as acounter-subject in the latter. Here is the formula ; A. B. fC. B and A combined. [C and A combined. 230 THE ORGAN WORKS OF BACH The feeling of unity that results from thisunusual scheme is remarkable, seeing that A inits combination with B and C undergoes suchrhythmical changes and is opposed by suchanimated matter that it might easily passunobserved by a listener unaware of its the secret of the Fugues success is tobe found chiefly in its splendid growth from thebroad, calm opening through the quaver middlesection for manuals only to the five-voiced thirdsection, with its increase of animation and rhythmicintensity and its splendid pedal part. Is there afiner pedal entry in all Bach (or anywhere else)than the final one ? -^ H H- BE^S±^ :Jz<ij-»-*-*zJ :ff. M -^ a r^-try fff =)Si: ^^ 3S W^ -J^ S ^fezzct :i2^5: -^ 1^ 0 m 0 ms. -»-0- tfc -I—h- mdst *:t !=t=t I ^^ —I- M THE ST. ANNE FUGUE 231 :.!> fr rrff fflj &c. ^J^ H ^^^^^ -,«»s- 12=*; S Even on a small organ the A flat is fine ; onan organ with a big pedal it is tremendous. Thisclosing entry of the main theme clinches thewhole lengthy argument in the most convincingway. Subjects B and C have made such brilliantplay that A, with its simple gravity, has beenalmost pushed aside. Now it sails grandly in,with a By your leave, there! / am the real godin the machine ! Mr. Heathcote Statham, in thebook already quoted in this volume, says thatone of our old musicians (Dr. Crotch ?) remarkedof this pedal entry of the subject that itsounded * as if it ought to be fired off withcannon. Berlioz, we know, hated organ fugues. St. Annes, discharged on Crotchs sound lines,would probably have converted him. For those of us with normal tastes the registrationof the Fug
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