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Fugue for String Quartet

 For String Quartet, 2004 (publisher: IMC 2004)

​​This piece has no programmatic elements – it is a piece of “absolute” music, built purely on melody, polyphony etc. in a free, somewhat modal atonal style. The work consists of three sections, each of them with a separate fugal subject. All the subjects are derived from the letters of the name BACH.  (B flat, A, C, B nat.) In addition, this work is inspired by Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge. The piece is a continuation of the polyphonic writing that the composer developed in her earlier works, and it contains various kinds of canons as well as other techniques. In this work, Rachel Galinne intended to create optimistic music expressing the joy of life, undisturbed by non-musical elements.

 

The work is included in the CD "Prisms", 2004.
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  • Sketch from "The Fugue for String Quartet" (Call no. MUS 253 A25)
  • Sketch from "The Fugue for String Quartet" (Call no. MUS 253 A25)
  • Printed score of the work "Fugue for String Quartet", Cover Page (Call no. MUS 253 P17)
  • Printed score of the work "Fugue for String Quartet", First Page (Call no. MUS 253 P17)
  • Printed score of the work "Fugue for String Quartet", Second Page (Call no. MUS 253 P17)
  • Printed score of the work "Fugue for String Quartet", Third Page (Call no. MUS 253 P17)
  • "Prisms", CD cover (CD 5943)