The Sailor’s Fugue  
a fugue in 4/4 time

Length: 3:50 minutes
File Size: 3.596 MB

 

A Jack Tar sailor

The traditional fiddle tune The Sailor's Hornpipe struck me as ideal for fugal treatment with its many sequential patterns.

The instruments portrayed in the four voices are an ocarina, a clarinet, a bassoon, and a bass clarinet and contrabassoon in octaves.

 

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© 2003 by William S. Hirsch

The basic melody is now regarded as a folk tune, but this particular electronic arrangement I regard as my own intellectual property and I do not give permission for it to be used in any advertising or in any commercial venture I receive no compensation from.