I wrote this ca. 2012, for pizzicato strings and clarinet. During this time I was interning at The Music Collective/Opus 1 Music Library (now Spirit Music Collective/PrimalHouse) and listening to hundreds of tracks to add/correct information, and inspired by that I wrote this as a potential library track. It was the third waltz I’d written as far as I knew. I created a happy version as well.
Fugue in C Minor
A strings + harpsichord fugue from ca. 2014-2016. The main thing keeping it from being conventional is that it’s in 5/8, and uses broken meter in one passage. The harpsichord line mirrors the bass.
As to the recording, it uses EastWest’s Platinum Symphony Orchestra samples.
Fugue in D Minor "Car Fugue"
This work was written in Caracas in 2008/9. It was meant to be quirky and Modernist, while still tonal and recognizable as a fugue. Techniques used include retrograde, augmentation, diminution, a “tape slowing effect” (downwards modulation + ritardando), trills, stretto, metric games and polyrhythmic devices.
The recording itself is pitched to A= 435, and utilizes EastWest’s Composers Collection harpsichord samples.
I nicknamed it “Car Fugue” because I enjoyed listening to it while driving.