FUGUE, G-major

Color Key:
red - subject
orange - answer (tonal) or re-entry with some kind of modification
teal - subject in melodic inversion or rhythmic displacements
green - subject in retrograde

In 2023 I had a significant change in the way I approached composition. I guess I'd been ruminating on my old theory classes and decided to give it another go with a 'devil-may-care' attitude, and it seems to have had lasting impact on my creative output, for what it's worth... which I think is a lot, but that's me. I hope others feel the enthusiasm and it refreshes their spirits of a passerby listen, too! (Imagine: street musician in a bustling underground terminal, empty tip jar at his feet and smile upon his lips.)

The subject works well in inversion, so I take advantage of that fact; but, what was particularly compelling for me was the retrograde. Don't ask me why I even thought to try that, let alone actually weave it into the strands. Maybe I was channeling Bach's G-minor fugue in Book 1 (WTC) wherein he uses the subject in retrograde (with slight modifications) as the counter-subject (I am in the same key here, come to think of it). Now, I'll be the first to admit I'm NO Bach (beware flying rotten tomatoes), regardless of the generation, and my little musical scribbles are no match for the least of baroque composers on his worst day. Ambition being what it is, I HAVE tried, and in the trying I think it works! You be the final judge, sounds of tools and my cursing up a storm in the garage notwithstanding.

Hope you like it! Thank you for listening!

As always: NO AI WAS USED, REFERENCED OR IN ANY OTHER WAY INCORPORATED INTO THIS MUSIC.

DOWN WITH CENSORSHIP.

[p.s. I am re-uploading this and several other fugues I have already finished in an attempt to get this channel to show up in searches; my previous channel wouldn't render any results here in Rumble or external search engines which, as you can imagine, is kinda frustrating, especially because I have forfeited all of the views I had generated, which, given my channel content, are highly prized and hard to come by.]