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Six Preludes & Fugues
1. Prelude and Fugue in E Minor – Lento – Allegro
2. Prelude and Fugue in A Minor – Steady – Vivace
3. Prelude and Fugue in D Major – Allegretto – Allegro
4. Prelude and Fugue in G Minor – Tranquillo – Con brio
5. Prelude and Fugue in C Minor – Allegro moderato – Vivace
6. Prelude in G Major & Fugue in E Minor – Allegro – Moderato
The first prelude and fugue was written in 1985 for the sixtieth birthday celebrations of composer Anthony Hedges. Along with other friends and former pupils, I was asked to contribute a short piece based on the notes associated with the family name Hedges (H and S deriving from the German names of the notes B natural and E-flat). A collection of these pieces was published as Topiary by Fentone Music. The second prelude and fugue was sketched shortly afterwards but not completed until a dozen years later. It also began by using notes derived from the name of a friend, but I can no longer remember from whose name the notes ADSEC were taken. The third prelude was left in sketches during the 1990s, but it was tidied up and given a fugue on related material in 2022. The final two preludes and fugues were composed in 2025 and rework material from my music notebooks of the early 1970s. The first prelude is followed by a three-voice fugue, the second by a four-voice fugue, and the third by a three-voice fugue, the fourth by a threevoice fugue, the fifth by a fourvoice fugue, and the sixth by a two-voice fugue.
Derek B. Scott