A Study Of Brahms' Fugue

Fugue composition plays an important role in the polyphony genre works of Brahms. It includes both some independent fugues and some others that applyed to one movement of a large work. In this paper, Brahms’ s eight fugues is the main study object. In order to fully understand and evaluate the status and historical effect of Brahms on the creative aspects of music in the development of the Romantic period in the 19 th century, this paper researches the feature of fugue composition and probes the succession in to the tradition and the highly innovation of original composers. By means of a detailed analysis of the structure of all kinds of representative fugue and the polyphonic technique, as the overall reviewed induction.This paper consists of four parts. That contains introduction, the overall analysis of the eightfugues, the reviews of fugues’ creative features and the conclusion. The summarize as follows :The introduction mainly clarifies the practical significance and the research value of Brahms Fugues. Principal paper contains two parts, part one and part two. By means of focused analyze the important phenomenon appeared on Brahms fugue of the first part, summaryies the different categories in the second part. Especially has done a thorough discussion on the diversification of answer form, the variation of the theme, intervening segment texture variation, the breakthrough of fugue structure and some other aspects. The conclusion indicates that Brahms has done a innovation with personality on the basis of inheriting traditional fugue writing, with a role lies in connecting the hisrory.