Underwater Fugue
Concert Band - Sheet Music

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Ensembles
Concert Band
Genres
Classical
Publishers
Imagine Music Publishing
Formats
Score
Item Types
Physical
Levels
Grade 4
Usages
School and Community
Concert Band - Grade 4

SKU: IG.WEF052-S

Composed by Michelle McQuade Dewhirst. Score. Imagine Music Publishing #WEF052-S. Published by Imagine Music Publishing (IG.WEF052-S).

9 x 12 in inches.

By Michelle McQuade Dewhirst. Underwater Fugue is written in three wind choirs, plus percussion. The scoring of this piece allows the band director to divide the group into high, medium, and low groups while covering all the parts. This scoring eliminates the problems with standard instrumentation, where if the band is missing an instrumental part, the piece doesn't sound quite right. In Underwater Fugue, the traditional fugue is taken as a point of departure, but, as the title suggests, the result is a little murkier. While there are certainly recognizable musical motifs that make their way imitatively from voice to voice, their musical development is not as direct or obvious; the shapes are instead merely suggested and edges are blurred, as if being observed under water. Each instrumental choir works together to form overlapping bands of musical color which ebb and flow like waves rather than representing discrete, strict contrapuntal voices. Commissioned by the Lee High School Band of Lee, Massachusetts Joanne Nelson, Conductor.