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Thanks for your comments - I really appreciate your input. Hopefully this is something that can be appreciated (or at least reviewed) by both those composers who strive to imitate, and those who strive to be original. Inevitably we'll all be a bit of both. I'll have a listen to Barber now. In a way I'm anxious to move on to something else, but I think you detected quite rightly that the Fantasia is more stylistically advanced than the fugue; I wrote it about a month afterwards, and did so in about two days (as opposed to two weeks). Listening to the Barber, which is very harmonically distant from my composition, I'm getting lots of new ideas for the next piece.
The fugue works more as an exercise than a piece - I've plotted out the structure in Microsoft Excel, and it displays as a myriad of different cells, inversions and so on. So in a way I consider the fact that it actually works as a piece (despite all the contrivances) very pleasing. Also, it will hopefully provide an objective aspect to the composition, which will mop up some extra marks.
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