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What is a fugue?

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why do musicians/composers study fugue?
which composers have studied fugue?

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Answer:

a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.

Step-by-step explanation:

User Stanislav Felshtyn
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It's a musical consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or fourth below its statement... It's a musical basically
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