Fugue in C - (2024)   

for organ

for Paul Reese

 

A set of rising fourths forms the general rationale for the subject, as seen in the opening solo pedal line. After a gesture of harmonically distant chords, the subject sings out its unabashed major tonic domain, Thereafter entrances come in the traditional dominant and tonic regions, with varying counterpoint, making a simple structure. The registration imagined is massed choirs, loud and louder, throughout.

 

Organist and choir director and violinist and more, Paul Reese played Bach's tripartite Fantasia in G major, BWV 572, last Sunday at St, Philip's in Charleston to my great delight. I have known the work since my teenage years, from Walter Kraft's Vox recording and the G. Schirmer score as edited by Widor and Schweitzer.. Sixty years later, the work still teaches as well as entertains. This small fugue is a thank you to Paul Reese.

 

 

6 pages, circa 5' 15" an MP3 demo is here: 

 

The score is available as a free PDF download, though any major commercial performance or recording of the work is prohibited without prior arrangement with the composer. Click on the graphic below for this organ score.

 

Fugue in C