Jig Fugue

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. David Marlatt)

This work bears the designation BWV 577.

General Info

Year: 2003
Duration: c. 3:45
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Organ
Publisher: Eighth Note Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $12.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

The famous Jig Fugue by Bach is a favorite with organists. It is light-hearted and energetic with its rollicking triple meter.

The key has been altered to facilitate two flutes and two clarinets at this level. All parts are very active including the second clarinet, who must tackle the tricky bass lines of Bach.

- Program Note by publisher

The Fugue in G Major, commonly known as the "Jig" Fugue, is shrouded in controversy. There is some debate as to whether J.S. Bach actually wrote this fugue or if was written by one of his students or even one of his sons. Bach wrote hundreds of fugues and this particular fugue, originally for organ, is fairly standard in design. The rollicking nature of the triple meter was not uncommon of the time, but Bach chose to write very few in this meter.

- Program Note from score

Commercial Discography

None discovered thus far.

Media Links

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

• Missouri: Woodwind.Mixed Woodwinds.Quartet.Grade B

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) Chamber Ensemble - 5 December 2020 (Virtual)

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• The Bach Initiative (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Folliard) (2019)
• Choral Prelude BWV 727 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Costa)
• Come, Sweet Death (Flex instrumentation) (tr. Reed; arr. Benson) (1736/1976/2019)
• Contrapunctus XIV (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Aho) (2018)
• Fugue en sol mineur BWV 578 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Costa) (1703-1707/)
• O Mensch, Bewein' Dein Sünde Gross (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Grainger; ed. Brand and Brion) (1724?/1937-1942/1987)
• Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ring) (?/2020)
• Three Fugues by J.S. Bach (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Danyew) (1722/2020)
  • Fugue No. 2 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Danyew) (1722/2020)
  • Fugue No. 16 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Danyew) (1722/2020)
  • Fugue No. 23 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Danyew) (1722/2020)

All Wind Works

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• Adagio (arr. Warner)
• Air (tr. Lang) (c. 1730/1958)
• Air for Woodwind Choir (arr. Blahnik)
• Arioso (arr. de Haan) (1729/2000)
• Arioso (arr. Hill) (1729/1984)
• Arioso (arr. Reed) (1729/1998)
• The Art of Fugue (tr. Amis) (c. 1745)
• Ave Maria
• Bach: Air (arr. McGinty) (c. 1730/)
• The Bach Buch (tr. Pann) (2011)
• Bach Fugue (arr. Kinyon)
• The Bach Initiative (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Folliard) (2019)
• Bach's Fugue à la Gigue (ed. Brand). See: Fugue à la Gigue
• Bach's Fugue à la Gigue (tr. Holst; ed. Mitchell) (1921/2005)
• Bourrée (arr. Isaac) (1720/1969)
• Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 (arr. Marlatt) (1721/2011)
• Canzona, BWV 584
• Chaconne (arr. Ito) (1720/1987)
• Chaconne and Festive Aria (arr. Daehn)
• Chaconne in D Minor (arr. Daehn)
• Choral Prelude BWV 727 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Costa)
• Chorale and Fugue (arr. Warner)
• Chorale and Fugue in F Major (arr. Daehn) (1988)
• Chorale Prelude on "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" (tr. Damrosch; adapt. O'Toole)
• Chorale in C Minor (arr. Topolewski) (2012)
• Christ He Is My Life (arr. Cailliet) (1973)
• Christmas Pastorale (arr. Hastings) (1970)
• Come, Sweet Death (arr. Reed) (1736/1976)
• Come, Sweet Death (Flex instrumentation) (tr. Reed; arr. Benson) (1736/1976/2019)
• Concerto IV (Alto Saxophone and Percussion Ensemble) (tr. Paxton; ed. Young) (c. 1738/2015)
• Concerto IV (Alto Saxophone, Piano and Percussion Ensemble) (tr. Paxton; ed. Young) (c. 1738/2015)
• Concerto IV (Flute and Percussion Ensemble) (tr. Paxton; ed. Young) (c. 1738/2015)
• Concerto IV (Flute, Piano and Percussion Ensemble) (tr. Paxton; ed. Young) (c. 1738/2015)
• Concerto IV (Soprano Saxophone and Percussion Ensemble) (tr. Paxton; ed. Young) (c. 1738/2015)
• Concerto IV (Soprano Saxophone, Piano and Percussion Ensemble) (tr. Paxton; ed. Young) (c. 1738/2015)
• Contrapunctus I (arr. Barnes) (c. 1745/1988)
• Contrapunctus III (arr. King) (c. 1745/1955)
• Contrapunctus V (arr. Daehn) (c. 1745)
• Contrapunctus XIV (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Aho) (2018)
• Deck Thyself, My Soul, With Gladness (arr. Reed) (1990)
• Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor (arr. Elgar; tr. Topolewski) (1727?)
• Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor (arr. Elgar; arr. Nowlin) (1727?/2016)
• Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 (arr. Hunsberger) (1727?/1997)
• Fantasia and Fugue in G minor (arr. Horovitz) (c. 1838/1986)
• Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 "The Great" (arr. Boyd) (c. 1838/1985)
• Fantasia in C (arr. Sterk) (1706/2017)
• Fantasia in G, BWV 572 (arr. Boyd) (1703-7/1957/1985)
• Fantasia in G, BWV 572 (arr. Goldman) (1703-7/1957/2012)
• Fervent is My Longing; Fugue in G Minor (tr. Cailliet) (c. 1710/1935/2006)
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• French Suite No. 2 (arr. Shishikura) (1722/)
• Fugue à la Gigue (tr. Holst; ed. Brand) (1921/2008)
• Fugue à la Gigue (ed. Mitchell). See: Bach's Fugue à la Gigue
• Fugue à la Gigue (arr. Rondeau) (1921/2011)
• Fugue en sol mineur BWV 578 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Costa) (1703-1707/)
• Fugue in B-flat Major (arr. Daehn) (1722/1988)
• Fugue in E-flat Major (tr. Abrams and Jones) (1739/2019)
• Fugue in G Minor (arr. Kimura) (1703-1707/1993)
• Fugue in G Minor (arr. Rechtman) (1703-1707/)
• Fugue No. 2 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Danyew) (1722/2020)
• Fugue No. 16 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Danyew) (1722/2020)
• Fugue No. 23 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Danyew) (1722/2020)
• God Still Lives (arr. Reed)
• Hertzlich tut mich verlangen. See: Fervent is My Longing; Organ Fugue in G Minor
• If Thou Be Near (arr. Moehlmann) (1725/1940)
• If Thou Be Near (arr. Reed) (1725/1984)
• In Dulci Jubilo (arr. Reed) (1970)
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (tr. Cailliet) (1723/1962)
• Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (tr. Leidzen) (1723/1936)
• Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (arr. Moerenhout) (1723/2019)
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (arr. Pekas) (1723/)
• Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (arr. Reed) (1723/)
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (arr. Sapieyevski) (1723/)
• Jig Fugue (arr. Marlatt) (2003)
• Komm, Susser Tod (arr. Leidzen) (1736/1936)
• A Little Bach Suite (arr. Gordon) (1966)
• Little Fugue (arr. Romm; adapt. Custer) (c. 1705/1974/1991)
• Little Fugue in G minor (arr. Howland) (c. 1705/1974/2015)
• Little Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578 (arr. Parks)
• March (arr. Grainger) (1946)
• My Heart, Ever Faithful (arr. Barnes) (1988)
• My Heart is Filled With Longing (arr. Reed) (c. 1710/1986)
• My Jesus, Oh What Anguish (arr. Reed)
• Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (arr. McAlister)
• Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (arr. Stert) (c. 1748/2013)
• O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht (arr. Westover) (c. 1736/2017)
• O Mensch, Bewein' Dein Sünde Gross (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Grainger; ed. Brand and Brion) (1724?/1937-1942/1987)
• Our Father Who Art in Heaven (arr. Reed) (1710/1988)
• Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (tr. Hunsberger) (1703-1713?/ 1968/1975)
• Passacaglia and Thema Fugatum in C Minor (tr. Stowkowski; ed. Sosnowchik) (1703-1713?/2014)
• Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (tr. Falcone) (ca. 1712/1969)
• Passacaglia from "Cantata No. 12" (arr. Daehn) (1714/2011)
• Präludium und Fuge d-Moll (tr. Rechtman) (1722/2003)
• Prelude IV (arr. Reed) (1722/1983)
• Prelude and Fugue No. 6, BWV 535 (arr. Anthenien) (1722/1979)
• Prelude and Fugue in A-flat, BWV 557 (tr. Moehlmann) (1964)
• Prelude and Fugue in Bb major (Brass Ensemble) (arr. Beyrent)
• Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major (Brass Quintet) (arr. Beyrent)
• Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major, BWV 553 (arr. Moehlmann) (1852/1955)
• Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major BWV 553 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ring) (?/2020)
• Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor, BWV 559 (arr. Moehlmann) (1852/1969)
• Prelude and Fugue in C major (arr. Beyrent)
• Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532 (arr. Steinmetz) (1710/2018)
• Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 554 (arr. Beyrent) (1722/2001)
• Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 555 (arr. Coleman) (1852/2017)
• Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 554 (tr. Moehlmann) (1852/1988)
• Prelude and Fugue in D minor (tr. Rechtman). See: Präludium und Fuge d-Moll
• Prelude and Fugue in E-flat, BWV 552 (setting Hunsberger) (c. 1739/2009)
• Prelude and Fugue in F major (arr. Moehlmann) (1852/?)
• Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV 555 (arr. Moehlmann) (1852/1954)
• Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 535 (tr. Moehlmann) (1852/1939)
• Prelude, Chorale and Fugue (arr. Godfrey) (1919)
• "Ricercare a 6" from Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (tr. McAlister)
• Saint Anne's Fugue (arr. Rhoads) (1965)
• Sarabande (arr. Kennaway) (1972/1977/1995)
• Second Bach Suite for Band (tr. Tolmage) (1965)
• Sehet was die liebe tut (arr. Grainger) (1937)
• Sheep May Safely Graze (arr. Reed) (1713/1981)
• Sinfonia from "Cantata No 29" (arr. Ninmer)
• Sixteen Chorales (ed. King) (1958)
• Sixteen Chorales (arr. Lake) (1938)
• Sleepers, Awake! (arr. Patterson) (1731/1995)
• Sleepers, Awake! (arr. Reed) (1731)
• Sleepers, Awake! (tr. Sparke) (1731/2002)
• Songs of Exaltation (arr. Gordon) (1974)
• St. Anne. See: Prelude and Fugue in E-flat
• Three Fugues by J.S. Bach (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Danyew) (1722/2020)
  • Fugue No. 2 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Danyew) (1722/2020)
  • Fugue No. 16 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Danyew) (1722/2020)
  • Fugue No. 23 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Danyew) (1722/2020)
• Thus Do You Fare, My Jesus (arr. Reed)
• Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major (arr. Rechtman) (c. 1717)
• Toccata, Aria, and Fugue in C Major (tr. Knox) (c. 1717)
• Toccata & Fuge d-Moll (arr. Goldhammer) (1705/2011)
• Toccata and Fugue in D minor (arr. Goldhammer). See: Toccata & Fuge d-Moll
• Toccata and Fugue in D minor (tr. Goto) (1705/2014)
• Toccata and Fugue in D minor (tr. Hindsley) (1705)
• Toccata and Fugue in D minor (tr. Hunsberger) (1705/1998)
• Toccata and Fugue in D minor (tr. Leidzen) (1705/1942)
• Toccata and Fugue in D minor (arr. Lopez) (1705/2010)
• Toccata and Fugue in D minor (tr. Nowlin) (1705/2015)
• Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue, BWV 564 (tr. Paynter) (c. 1717/2000)
• Toccata, Adagio and Fugue (tr. Knox) (c. 1717)
• Violin Partita No. 3 in E major (arr. Kitakata) (1720/2018?)
• Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (arr. Lauf Jr.) (1731/2019)
• Who Puts His Trust in God Most Just (arr. Croft) (1978)
• Wir Glauben All’ An Einen Gott (arr. Stokowski) (1739)

Resources

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