History
The fuguing tune arose in England in the middle of the 18th century.
The general trends discussed above can be seen in the following chart, which is based on the songs of The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition. The songs were sorted according to the date assigned them in this book (this is often the date of first publication, not composition), then grouped more or less arbitrarily into historical periods. The vertical axis plots the fraction of the total tunes from the given era that were fuguing tunes.
The particular popularity of fuguing tunes in both late 18th and the 20th centuries can be clearly seen.
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