note 41: Beethoven, commenting on the name, majestically said:
"He is no brook; he is the open sea!"]

[Footnote 42: For a very suggestive article on this point by Philip
Greeley Clapp see the Musical Quarterly for April, 1916.]

[Footnote 43: Some eloquent comments on Bach's style and significance
may be found in Chapter III of _The Appreciation of Music_ by Surette
and Mason.]

Two additional fugues are now given in the Supplement (see Nos. 17 and
18) for the consideration of the student: the _Cat-Fugue_ of Domenico
Scarlatti, with its fantastic subject (said to have been suggested by
the walking of a favorite cat on the key-board) and the _Fuga Giocosa_
of John Knowles Paine, (the subject of which is the well-known
street-tune "Rafferty's lost his pig"). This latter example is not
only a brilliant piece of fugal writing but a typical manifestation of
American humor.

Several eulogies of the fugue are to be found in literature; three of
the most famous are herewith appended.

"Hist, but a word, fair and soft!
Forth and be judged, Master Hugues!
Answer the question I've put you so oft:
What do you mean by your mountainous fugues?
See, we're alone in the loft."

--Browning, _Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha_.

Throughout, a most fantastic description of fugal style.

"Whence the sound
Of instruments, that made melodious chime,
Was heard, of harp and organ; and who mov'd
Their stops and chords was seen; his volant touch
Instinct through all proportions, low and high,
Fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue."

--Milton, _Paradise Lost_, Book XI.

"Then rose the agitation, spreading through the infinite
cathedral to its agony; then was completed the passion of
the mighty fugue. The golden tubes of the organ which as yet
had but sobbed and muttered at intervals--gleaming amongst
clouds and surges of incense--threw up, as from fountains
unfathomable, columns of heart-shattering music. Choir and
antichoir were filling fast with unknown voices. Thou also,
Dying Trumpeter! with thy love which was victorious, and thy
anguish that was finishing, didst enter the tumult; trumpet
and echo--farewell love and farewell anguish--rang through
the dreadful Sanctus."

--From De Quincey's _Dream Fugue in the "Vision of Sudden
Death_."

Truly a marvellous picture of the effect of a fugue in a great
medieval cathe