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Fuga in F - When Love Is Kind

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Uploaded by: NeoBarock (06/20/22)
Composer: * My Own Composition
Sample Producer: Piotr Grabowski
Sample Set: Erfurt Büssleben 1702
Software: GrandOrgue
Genre: Baroque
Description:
Back from my holiday in Provence - it was wonderfully beautiful and I got a lot of "colour" - I had a music book in my luggage, which I bought for a small amount of money in a very special shop in Avignon - where they really only had music books. A certain Gèrard Billaudot put together a series of very beautiful songs, and the very first one became the subject of this fugue in F. The song was written by Thomas Morley, whom I am sure many of you know as a composer of secular madrigals from the Renaissance period.
Here are a few words about Thomas Morley:

Thomas Morley (b. 1557 or 1558 probably in Norwich; † October 1602 in London) was an English composer, musicologist and organist of the Renaissance.
In 1588 Morley, who was a pupil of William Byrd, obtained the degree of Bachelor of Music at Oxford. From organist at St Paul's Cathedral in London, he rose to become a gentleman of the Chapel Royal. He held this office from 1592 until his death.
In addition to the cheerful and appealing character of his pieces, his advocacy of Italian music, which was rapidly gaining in importance in England, played a decisive role in his success. The wide distribution of Morley's works in print reflects his importance today; for example, the pieces April is in my mistress' face from 1594 and Now is the month of maying from 1595 are still two of the best-known English madrigals today. Mount Morley on Alexander I Island in Antarctica has borne his name since 1961.
The melody is really very secular, profane and today one would sing it as a song for swaying in a merry circle.
Well then, a fugue had to be built, which was not so easy despite the euphoria over the catchy melody.

But enough of the preface - have fun with this little fugue!
Performance: MIDI
Recorded in: Stereo
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