Before I get into it, I wanted to talk a little bit about short term and long term goals with this blog. For the next few days, at least until the end of February, I am aiming to put out one quick piece a day. No matter how unfinished I may feel it is, I want to make that my goal. If you have a suggestion or idea for a quick piece please let me know! I'll probably miss a few days because I have a busy-ish week ahead of me, but whatever.
Long term, I have one already started project in mind that I want to continue writing. I will devote a whole post to discussing that soon—probably one of the days on which I'm too busy to write.
Anyway. Today's piece is a trombone quartet. The harmonic language I used today is a little more advanced compared to yesterday, so listeners beware.
After yesterday's piece for two pianos, I wanted to work with winds today. In honor of my oldest friend (hi, Tim), I wanted to feature bass trombone. So I sent him a message asking him to name his favorite note to blast. I'm sorry that I couldn't use Eb2, I had to move it up a half step for my own sanity. Writing a fugue in Eb Minor is inconvenient and the Fb accidentals were driving me crazy. Oh, didn't I mention it turned into a fugue?
A fugue is a highly intricate form. The most iconic fugues, of course, are the ones composed by Bach. Weaving together three or more distinct voices is challenging, additionally it restricts the composer to developing only a single melodic idea. I'll spare you a full analysis, I'm not prepared to write as much as is necessary to explain the fugue form and I don't think you'd want to read that.
To say this is a finished piece may be a lie, I certainly didn't spend enough time polishing it yet I wanted to achieve my goal. Listen carefully for the theme—or simple snippets of it—to come back repeatedly throughout.
Thanks for listening,
~Luke
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