Caltabiano: Prelude and Fugue, for Organ

Prelude and Fugue

Duration:

9 min.

Year:

1981

Organ

Catalog no.:

443-41002

The eerie first movement of my Prelude and Fugue takes the form of an alway-rising cantus firmus. Over the long lines of the cantus, florid ornaments foreshadow melodic fragments and create harmonies that will be explored in the next movement.

The fugue opens with three identical statements of a subject that is then transformed rhythmically and melodically in each subsequent appearance. Over the first part of the fugue, it changes shape from a falling line to a rising one and it becomes quicker, going from four measures of quarter- and eighth-notes to less than three beats of sixteenth- and thirty-second-notes. After the fortissimo climactic statement, the subject back tracts and eventually evaporates into a brief cadenza before the final cadence.

-- R.C.


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