Sowash: “Fugue" from Convivial Suite for violin and cello.

We usually expect that music written in a minor key will be sad and gloomy.

But consider “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.”  It’s in a minor key, yet downright jolly.

And we usually expect that, unless it’s by J.S. Bach, a fugue will be a dry affair, an overlong intellectual exercise.

But consider the “Fugue” that opens my little bouquet of miniatures for violin and cello, entitled Convivial Suite.  It ain’t Bach, but it ain’t half bad.  Not dry.  Juicy.

Short, too.  Less than 2.5 minutes.

Though the key is D minor, the mood would please Ye Merry Gentlemen, God rest them.

Just listen to violinist Laura Bossert and cellist Terry King play “Fugue" from Convivial Suite, by clicking here:
http://www.sowash.com/recordings/mp3/convivial_fugue.mp3

To see a PDF of the score, click here:
http://www.sowash.com/recordings/mp3/convivial_fugue.pdf

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Rick Sowash
Cincinnati, OH
May 1, 2016
www.sowash.com