Evening Games Quartet by DanielEricMorel published on 2019-07-24T18:33:15Z The following quartet is a series of games, suitable for an evening's entertainment. It opens with a simple drinking song, leading into a series of canons, and finishing off with a rousing and climactic fugato. A lyrical bassoon solo starts off the quartet, singing an off-kilter song. This song is developed in variants by all players as they outdo each other in a haphazard and tipsy fashion, with an occasional refrain of the original to remind the drunken quartet where they are. The drinking song is followed up with three puzzle canons introduced by another bassoon solo. The act of solving these musical riddles should be enough entertainment alone, as there are numerous solutions - some more interesting than others. The quartet closes with an unrestrained and wild fugato using a eveloped variation of the original drinking song motif. Though it does not hold the trappings of a full fugue, the quartet does rigorously develop and move its thematic material in a highly contrapuntal texture, making for an invigorating finish to the evening games. Genre Classical Contains tracks Evening Games Quartet: I. Drinking Song by DanielEricMorel published on 2019-07-24T18:33:15Z Evening Games Quartet: II. 3 Musical Puzzles by DanielEricMorel published on 2019-07-24T18:33:14Z Evening Games Quartet: III. Fugato by DanielEricMorel published on 2019-07-24T18:33:13Z
