Neoclassical Fantasy and Fugue for String Quartet

i thing

the word neoclassic is not necessary

but is your music...
i dont like it, is borring

your song don't have any work, is only a paste of good ideas, and the fugue is not a really fugue it seems more like a cannon, and is like i saw, boring. all the time is fast and in one dynamical them, really, i hate it.

I'm sorry you didn't like the piece. Fugues do not have to be fast, but they do have to deploy the subject in different keys:

Little Fugue

If you could be more specific, then I'll try to hone my style.

very interesting work. it reminded me some similar pieces by Mendelssohn, which i like. more on the voicing, of course your harmony is modern, and very nice, by the way.

By the by, is it possible for you to provide a PDF? I am very eager to take a look at the score.

Also, very nice usage of the B-A-C-H motif at the end of the piece — it gave a very nice closure.

Originally Posted by josepablo

blah blah blah...and the fugue is not a really fugue it seems more like a cannon, and is like i saw, boring. all the time is fast and in one dynamical them, really, i hate it.

Wel, other than the fact that Pablo here has no idea what he's talking about....

I rather LIKED your fugue.

The only critique I would bring is that I felt the inclusion of the mirror version was a tiny bit too prominant and too soon into the fugue. It would have felt more balanced had the actual subject been a bit more explored up front before launching into the mirror version.

And one other little detail: be careful of that dotted quarter note in the subject. There were moments where the counterpoint came to a complete stop ON that long note. It broke the rhythm of the piece completely. The idea would be to make sure that whenever your dotted quarter note shows up in the subject, that the countersubject be active through-out.

Anyways, I really liked the fugue.

this was an excellent piece that i thoroughly enjoyed listening to. However, one thing that I did notice was that sometimes the violin would seem to jump in almost a bit too early it seemed, or maybe the cello would, and this gave the piece a frantic feeling to it. Maybe add a place where the listener can take a bit of a breather. Other than that, a very well done piece.

Thanks for all the compliments and criticism. I felt I learnt a great deal from this composition as it represents a foray into a style with which I'd previously been unfamiliar. I'm currently working on a Ritornello Concerto in a purely baroque idiom, which should be interesting. I'll probably sketch some of the other movements before I post it though - I've got more than one idea for the second movement... (though most sound worryingly like that 'Adagio' erroneously attributed to Albinoni)