Lots of sections of pieces by Orff will fit this bill. I know the A-major fugue for piano by Shostakovich makes a fugue subject out of the A-major triad--I don't recall where it goes from there.
ajr > > Doesn't the Brahms Requiem finish one movement with a huge fugue section > that is essentially a D chord? > > -Steve S > NYC > > > > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:58:24 +1100 > From: "Matthew Hindson (gmail)" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Finale] TAN: pieces or sig. excerpts based on one or two > chords > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed > > Can anyone recommend some works or significant parts of works that are > based on one or two chords only? > > So far I have: > > Monteverdi: Prelude to L'Orfeo (D major) > Wagner: Prelude to Das Rheingold (Eb major) > Ross Edwards: Maninya V (two chords) > Stockhausen: Stimmung (1 chord) > > I'm sure there are many others I'm missing: any suggestions? > > Matthew > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
