Denver Oldham. piano
This fugue seems to be saturated with Trinitarian symbolism, three parts, 3/4 time. And Dett seems to have acknowledged that was his intention in creating the structure. It is quite a departure from the other movements in the suite and in the rest of Dett's music I've heard but I think he wrote a pretty good 3-part fugue. The theme of the fugue makes it sound more modern to me than the material would lead you to expect.
I found this very interesting doctoral dissertation The Six Piano Suites of R. Nathaniel Dett by Clipper Erickson which is worth reading through.
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