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[MUSIC PLAYING] JULIA BRENNAN: In example number six, you'll see Braque and JS Bach paired together. Now, Braque's favorite composer was JS Bach. And the thing that he loved so much about Bach, and what we know Bach was most famous for, was his writing of fugues.

Now, a fugue is very similar to a round. In a round, such as "Row, Row Row Your Boat" or "Kookaburra", you'll notice that you have one part that starts and then another part comes in. But it's always the same. It's the same part. It's just entering at a different spot.

The difference between a round and a fugue is that in a fugue, yes, you can hear the same tune over and over again, but sometimes you'll hear them inverted, sometimes the pitch might go up or might go down, or it might be backwards. It's played with a little bit more than it is in a round. So in Braque's work, he's really drawing on Bach's use of fugue. So you'll notice those layers building up on top of each other in the music and in the artwork.

The layering on top of those different parts or different melodies can also be compared to Cubism, so where you see the different shapes being layered on top of each other and different sounds in music, different shapes or different layers on top of each other in the artwork.

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