A four-voice fughetta on two subjects in the F Aeolian mode. This fughetta is distinguished from its companions in the set for its length and breadth, and even more so for being composed in one of the ecclesiastical modes rather than in a synthetic "modern" scale. The Aeolian mode, also known as the Natural Minor, is among the most widely familiar of the ecclesiastical modes, and consists of the following intervals in its ascending form: tone, semitone, tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone. Despite the greater scope of this fughetta, it is characterized by motivic economy, bound by an emotionally stark musical rhetoric and diatonic (through somewhat vagrant) harmonic progressions having a strongly Aeolian flavor. Note the more prominent role played by the bass guitar within the contrapuntal texture; note too the several points at which deviations from a "normal" fugal texture occur.
The full engraved score, presented below:
If you enjoyed this, please consider becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/philipdaniel or https://www.subscribestar.com/philip-daniel
