"All the world is a joke" are the words to the one that closes Verdi's Falstaff, and the first movement of Beethoven's string quartet opus 131 is this type of piece.
"All the world is a joke" are the words to the one that closes Verdi's Falstaff, and the first movement of Beethoven's string quartet opus 131 is this type of piece. Brahms wrote a set of variations and one of these based on a theme by Handel, and twelve of these pieces are separated by eleven interludes in Paul  Hindemith's Ludus tonalis. The "Of Science" section of Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra is one of these employing all twelve notes of the chromatic scale. One element of this type of piece can be real or tonal; that is the answer, which is a repetition of the subject in a different voice. For 10 points, identify this type of composition paired with preludes in The Well- Tempered Clavier by Bach, who also wrote a piece called The Art of them.
"All the world is a joke" are the words to the one that closes Verdi's Falstaff, and the first movement of Beethoven's string quartet opus 131 is this type of piece.
fugue