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Hello my fellow musicians, now I present the second half of the fugue with the „special feature“. Today is the 24th of February and it is now exactly four years ago since the Russian invasion in Ukraine. As I composed the fugue between February and May 2022, I decided - after I had accomplished the first half - to integrate the Ukrainian national anthem as further theme in the second half of the fugue – as a dedication to those which suffer from that terrible war, or more worse, have even lost their lives. For continuing the „analytic comments“, we cannot speak from now on of „development sections“ and „episodes“ since the fugue is now structured by the verses of the anthem and interludes between them: First Verse of the Anthem (mm. 51b – 43a). The first verse in B flat minor in the soprano is „accompanied“ by three subject entries: • B flat minor, inverted, bass (mm. 51b) • F minor, tenor (mm. 55b) • D flat major, diminished, alto (mm. 58b) Interlude (mm. 60 - 66). The interlude, dominated by a sequential motif which appears three times in normal form and three time in inversion. The fugue subject appears once in normal and once in the diminished form: • D flat major, bass (mm. 60b) • E flat minor, diminished, bass (mm. 64b) Second Verse of the Anthem (mm. 67 – 74). Similarly, the second verse, again in B flat minor in the soprano has tree contrasting subject entries, where the last, diminished one could be counted to the following interlude, too: • F minor, tenor (mm. 67) • B flat minor, bass (mm. 71) • D flat major, diminished, tenor (mm. 74) Interlude (mm. 75 - 82a). This interlude consists of four sequences, each featuring an entry of the diminished subject, which perform the modulation from the „sad“ keys with flat key signatures used so far (for example E flat minor) to the „triumphant“ keys with sharp key signatures (finally to F sharp major): • D flat major, diminished, tenor (mm. 74) • A flat major, diminished, bass (mm.76) • B major, diminished, soprano (mm. 78) • F sharp major, diminished, alto (mm. 80) Third Verse of the Anthem (mm. 82b – 90). The anthem repeats the last half bar of the second verse and is now in the third verse finally in the brightest major key in F sharp major! The remaining subject entries of the fugue are as follows: • B minor, inverted, bass (mm. 82b) • F sharp minor, diminished, tenor (mm. 85b) • A major, diminished, tenor (mm. 86c) • F sharp major, „tail only“, bass (mm. 89) I hope, you'll enjoy it. Wieland Here is the link to the previous thread with the first part of the fugue:

Someone on another forum was asking for music for their church treble choir that's just starting to learn to sing harmony. They are good at partner songs and call and response. So this is church appropriate and uses lots of unison and call and response, plus a little bit of harmony. Since it has so much unison it needed a piano/organ part to do some of the heavy lifting harmonically, but I'm not a pianist. If you notice that any of it would require really awkward fingering please let me know! I'm attaching a pdf of the score so you can read along. I think this would also be really nice for treble choir plus women's choir, with the kids taking the first unison section, and then the adults joining them. Or for an easy anthem some Sunday when the four guys in your church choir are all out of town, and all you have are sopranos and altos. Thanks for listening! Here's a youtube with the score rolling by in case that's easier: