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Like many of Smallwood’s compositions, “Total Praise” mixes gospel and classical styles—Smallwood was raised in the black church and studied piano performance at Howard University—ending with a steadily crescendoing, fugally arranged chorus of amens.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 13, 2016

The work consists of fugal Variations planned on the most elaborate scale.249 The composer's intention was to show in what a variety of ways the same theme can be treated fugally.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus