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Final Countdown (arr. Mark Marrington) Digital Sheet Music
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Final Countdown (arr. Mark Marrington)by Europe Full Orchestra - Digital Sheet Music

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The Fugue on the Final Countdown employs the famous theme by 1980s hair metal band Europe as its subject. Those of a certain age will recall that it was impossible to escape this tune during the summer of 1986 (even the natives of the Solomon Islands were said to have learned it on the panpipes) and this piece constitutes my revenge. It was composed in 2005 following a discussion of fugue subjects during a Harmony and Counterpoint class. I was thrown a gauntlet by the students: submit one of pops finest anthemic moments to a rigorous contrapuntal treatment worthy of the great Baroque masters (or something like that). As it turns out Europes theme is actually rather Bachian in character, being reminiscent in particular of the subject used in Fugue No. 2 in C minor from the Well Tempered Clavier. Evenings poring over Oldroyds The Technique and Spirit of Fugue, which helpfully showed me the number of ways in which Bach broke his own rules, have probably paid off! The resulting composition for a standard orchestral line-up is for all intents and purposes a genuine fugue in that it utilizes a countersubject which works in invertible counterpoint, contains modulatory episodes which use material derived from the main theme and even culminates in a stretto-like finale.

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