「フーガ」 ブルース・スターク マリンバ カルテット（４人） 楽譜とパート： ￥２９９９ （税込） |
Program Notes
Fugue is both jazz-influenced (it has to swing!) and structurally rigorous. After a four-part exposition the syncopated theme appears in stretti, inversion, augmentation, and rhythmically altered. There are also passages where the music becomes intoxicated with its own momentum, and polyrhythmic tapestries derived from motifs in the theme propel the piece forward. A quiet section in the middle offers contrast to the waves of intensity before and after.
The first version of Fugue was composed in 1987 for four unspecified voices. In 1989 I prepared a version for the Manhattan Marimba Quartet's premiere of the work in New York City. Twenty years later, I made considerable revisions and completed a new edition (8 minutes long), along with this 5 minute version suited to certain programming needs.
A special thanks goes to Dr. Tracy Freeze for his encouragement and interest, without which this edition would not exist, and to Christopher Hardy for his suggestion and encouragement of the short version.
- Bruce Stark