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PraeludiumUndFuge, I'm glad to hear more of your music. There aren't enough neobaroque composers around. I like the fugue, although I would have played it a bit faster. I liked the tonal colors in your sequences and also the strettos. The strettos were by far the most interesting parts; on the other hand, I thought the compound line melody you introduced around 1:19 didn't really fit in. But all of my issues with this fugue are with your motive choices, and thus are purely about my own tastes in music; I don't really disagree with them but I would have written them differently. I liked how the end began to build up with a re-exposition, but then it seemed like you ended it too soon... you need more buildup before the final cadence.
Don't worry though. I hope I don't sound too negative; it is an excellent fugue.
I'm beginning the b-minor subject; it has the exact sort of chromatic line I want in my music... And it is especially suited to inversion. I'm planning on making a really short fugue or perhaps a Froberger-style canzona or capriccio (though I'll call it ricercar, sounds more noble) in three rhythmic sections, the middle one in compound time, with maybe a toccata style ending. I'm trying to figure out a stylistic balance between tonality and ultrachromaticism, continuous rhythms (Bach) and more wild ones (Froberger), counterpoint and harmony, and above all a smooth melodic line that still remains creative (Buxtehude).
So far I'm into the first episode.
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