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 | Erwin Ratz's book – first published in 1951 in Vienna – has been and even today is an important landmark in the evolution of European musicology, especially in the field of musical analysis. |
| Erwin Ratz was born in Graz Austria in 1898 and died in Vienna in 1973. |
| Ratz's intellectuality and profound thought are demonstrated in the first paragraph of the introduction to his book, where the author quotes Goethe: "everyone can see the matter; the content can be found only by those who have something to do with it and the form is a secret for most people" (p. |
| Wikipedia: Fugue (3126 words) |
| Bach was sufficiently expert that he could tell exactly what entrances could occur simply by hearing the first playing of a theme. |
| Although fugues are often described in purely contrapuntal terms, tonally-centered fugues also manifest a fundamental harmonic structure (Ratz, 1951). |
| In the words of the Austrian musicologist Erwin Ratz (1951, p. |
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