Classic contrapuntal composition Fugue on a sampled pipe organ.
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From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue
In music, a fugue (pronounced /ˈfju¢°g/) is a type of contrapuntal composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of parts, normally referred to as "voices".
In the Middle Ages, the term was widely used to denote any works in canonic style; by the Renaissance, it had come to denote specifically imitative works.
Since the 17th century, the term fugue has described what is commonly regarded as the most fully developed procedure of imitative counterpoint. A fugue opens with one main theme, the subject, which then sounds successively in each voice in imitation; when each voice has entered, the exposition is complete; this is occasionally followed by a connecting passage, or episode, developed from previously heard material;