fughetta
music
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variety of fugue
- In fugue: Varieties of the fugue
A fughetta is a short fugue, with exposition plus only a few restatements of the subject. Fugato applies to music where only part of a fugue—usually an exposition—appears in a context that is not otherwise fugal, as a means of thematic development. Well-known examples of fugato…
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