Lexicographical Neighbors of Strettos
Literary usage of Strettos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Famous Composers and Their Works by Philip Hale, Louis Charles Elson (1900)
"Such a fugue might be compared to a diamond necklace, the strettos being the ...
The strettos, for there may be several, ought to follow each other in the ..."
2. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Story of the Development of a Great Personality by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1909)
"There are some surprising tours de force in the matter of strettos here and there,
as in the fugues in D major and B flat minor, and wonderful employment of ..."
3. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Story of the Development of a Great Personality by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1909)
"There are some surprising tours de force in the matter of strettos here and there,
as in the fugues in D major and B flat minor, and wonderful employment of ..."
4. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"The normal fugue is made of an alternation of strettos (strict) and episodes (free).
... Sometimes a fugue can be made wholly of strettos without episodes, ..."
5. Music by Henry Charles Banister (1887)
"Some Subjects furnish better or more strettos than others : some ... The strettos
may be made at various intervals; and sometimes are made by Inverse ..."
6. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"The normal fugue is made of an alternation of strettos (strict) and episodes (free).
... Sometimes a fugue can be made wholly of strettos without episodes, ..."
7. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"A subject is often capable of a variety of strettos through the various ...
When several strettos are used in a fugue the closest and most elaborate is ..."
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