Download the score – Five Fugues
I wrote these fugues in April 2020 as part of a mini-challenge put on by the RPM Challenge. I’ve always been a fan of writing fugues and abstracting hooks from my Top 40 Radio past. It was a match made in heaven. I wrote a few others and collected them under the title Ludicrous Tonalis and decided to pull out my favorites for this collection.
Jay C. Batzner (b. 1974) is currently on the faculty of Central Michigan University. He reads too many comic books and tries to find time for sewing and other various hobbies. Jay likes playing chess but loses a LOT of games.
Jay’s frequent interdisciplinary collaborations with choreographer Heather Trommer-Beardslee has led to several dance works based on student veterans, ecological succession, the Larry Craig scandal, and hyena behaviors. The hyena piece even includes puppets!
80s atonal awesome bilston comic books comics concerto contemplative counterpoint duet dulcimer duo electronics fixed media funny hard high voice improvisation marimba medium voice noisy percussion piano poem poetry pop quartet sci-fi scifi setup short song song cycle speaking spiky spoken strugatsky timpani trigger triggered trio unpitched weird white zen