Craig Wright, Yale's Listening to Music professor, devotes this lecture to the fugue, opening with brief examples of fugue-like structure in poetry and painting before turning to how fugues actually work in music. He breaks down the anatomy of a fugue, subject, answer, countersubject, episode, using J.S. Bach as the central case study, walking through specific Bach compositions in detail to show how voices enter and interweave. He then extends the analysis to excerpts from Georges Bizet and Leonard Bernstein, testing whether the same formal logic holds up outside the Baroque era. The lecture is organized in four chapters, moving from introduction through structural theory to close analysis of Bach and then the later composers. It is a technical, listening-based session aimed at hearing form rather than just naming it, part of Wright's undergraduate course on how to listen to music.