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About the exposition, Zetetic, you are totally right; I've rewritten this about five times and the exposition I posted was from an earlier version where I planned on using a countersubject. In this version I abandoned the idea of a fixed countersubject, so I should have gone back to the exposition and put in more varied and more tonal material. Overall, however, I tend towards modality and in most of my music the only strong tonicization is at cadences. This is a result of many weak progressions and the natural minor scale. When I rewrite the exposition, I'll try to have mild cadences between statements of the subject.
PraeludiumUndFuge, I'm not sure if I understand exactly what you mean about a ricercar approach; I understand that as they're presented the two versions are difficult to reconcile, but when I come back to this I might try to rework both motives from a new perspective... the old version is slightly repetitious, the new one perhaps too sequential. I'm probably not going to finish this for a few weeks at least... it was tiring and now I need to rest and work on something else, so that I have more contrapuntal control when I return to it. If I have time, I might make it in two parts, the second faster and jig-like with a toccata-style coda like the cappriccios of Froberger and Buxtehude.
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