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Originally Posted by J. Lee Graham
I agree. Pinned!
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I take that to mean that we can still continue to post fugues on the subjects given by Brandon here? I've started working on the C minor subject, because I saw that many fugues had been posted already for that one and I thought "This must be a wonderful and inspiring subject".
Well, I've resisted the temptation to look at other fugues on the same subject to avoid borrowing material, even though I may unconsciously be borrowing from other material anyway.
I've decided to write a 4-voice fugue, but I have slightly changed the original subject: instead of ending with F-G-Ab, I ended it with F#-G-A, thereby making that subject modulating into the dominant. This allows me to make all voices enter without the need for a bridge. Of course, I've mutated the tail of the answer to modulate back to the tonic.
I hope it's OK to do something like that.
The good thing is: the subject being (slightly) different, the outcome will naturally be (enormously) different.
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Raphael