echurchill

Well, I guess I thought this would be easier... but it is actually quite challenging.... this is my second rewrite and it is still unfinished.

Here I begin at the exposition, which states the subject four times, although I leave the counterpoint below three voices throughout (The lowest voice drops out at the second answer). My feeling is that the countersubject might be a bit strong, and the exposition a bit repetitive because there is no new material - the second countersubject is mostly filler.

Then the first episode lasts two measures and introduces a nice motive. I was planning a short fugue, so I kept the episodes small.

Then two statements of the theme in the dominant.

Following is a short episode that develops suspensions resolving with a double neighbor figure.

Then the subject twice in the relative major.

Then echurchill is lost.

I can't really decide how to finish, because I don't like how it has turned out so far. Me and my harpsichord teacher agree that it is too repetitive. Should I state the theme less? Should I repeat the double neighbor figure less? Should I make the episodes longer? If so, then how do fugues without episodes or very short ones work? And finally, if I make my episodes longer, how do I know that the theme will be highlighted rather than lost? I'm currently answering my own questions.

I was planning to make the final episode modulate back to b-minor and state the subject and its inversion a few times, ending with a nice cadence or half-cadence. Introducing a new idea during the recapitulation might sound dangerous, but I was planning on making this a multi-sectional canzona/capriccio. But now I'm so frustrated with this section that I probably won't add any others. Ultimately the problem is that I am unready for fugal writing.

I would greatly appreciate any advice or guidance.